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Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” has died. He was 80. Wright’s son Dorian confirmed the news to Variety; no cause of death was announced.

He was a founding member of the U.K.-based band Spooky Tooth and was an in-demand session player from the late ’60s on, playing on all of George Harrison’s solo ...st Pass” — and on Ringo Starr’s early singles (and, much later, with Starr’s All-Starr Band) as well as Nilsson, Tim Rose, B.B. King and many others. Yet he will be best remembered for the mid-1970s hits mentioned above, which were part of a vaguely mystical, synthesizer-driven style of hit single of the era — Steve Miller’s “Fly Like an Eagle” is another example — and which saw him appearing on many music shows, wearing satin gear and rocking a keytar.

2023 has been a shit year!

Love Is Alive was an awesome jam...

PennyPurple said:

2023 has been a shit year!

Right !

I loved everything about "DREAM WEAVER", and adopted the title of that song for many of my pet projects through the years. The lyrics to the song also mirrored my desire to escape the many challenges of some of the more disturbing aspects of my teenaged years ( "...fly me away to the dark side of the moon, and meet me on the other side" ). Yeah, I have loved that song for so many reasons - through good times and bad.

May Gary Wright rest peacefully.

I discovered his albums late around late 80's.

I have most of his albums and have a specvial love for his late seventies and early eighties albums.

Great songs, great sound, great music. Original songwriting. Great musician.

Damn they all go like flies.

RIP.

I was an 80s baby and I taped "Love Is Alive" off the radio. I didn't know how old it was, I just loved that groove!