Gary Wright

•  дискография
•  участие в альбомах
•  cмотри также
•  Pop-Rock, Classic Rock, New Age, Progressive Rock

Gary Wright (born April 26, 1943), Cresskill, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American musician, probably best known for his song, "Dream Weaver". He was the piano player on Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You". He currently resides in Palos Verdes Estates, California with wife Rose. He has two adult sons, Dorian and Justin. The latter son is a member of the band "Intangible".

Gary Wright was born and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey, and attended Tenafly High School. In the 1960s, Wright went to Europe to continue studying psychology. In 1967, he joined the band Spooky Tooth as singer and keyboardist. In 1970 Wright was involved as a producer with Liverpool based Folk music band, Arrival, and was also a member of the Folk rock band Howl the good who had played, alongside Arrival, at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. During this period, he also befriended George Harrison and was invited to contribute piano to Harrison's All Things Must Pass.

After Spooky Tooth's split in 1974, Wright continued his solo career, culminating in "Dream Weaver". The single peaked at No. 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 and went gold. It was also featured in the Wayne's World film and soundtrack, as well as in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt. Later in 1976, his follow-up single "Love Is Alive" also reached No. 2 (for two weeks). Ronnie Montrose played guitar on the song "Power Of Love" from The Dreamweaver. Although The Dream Weaver was a massive hit album and would go multiplatinum, his subsequent releases did not catch on, either critically or commercially. Radio play did not help, and with the lack of another hit single, his career quickly stalled. But Wright continued to make albums anyway throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. He has 10 albums, his first two albums, Extraction and Footprint, released before the big success of The Dreamweaver, are now available as an official double-disc import (digitally remastered). Wounded Bird Records will be reissueing the releases of "The Light Of Smiles", Touch and Gone","Headin' Home" and "The Right Place" in October 2008, all except "Headin' Home" will feature extra tracks.

Wright's last significant success on the pop chart was 1981, when he returned with "Really Wanna Know You" (co-written by Ali Thomson), a lavish, bass-heavy song that managed to hit No. 16. His 1981 song "Comin' Apart", from the album The Right Place, was sampled by Armand Van Helden for the 2004 club song titled "My My My". The song was remixed in 2006 by Andreas S. Jensen of remixer/writer team The Funktuary , became the 2nd most played on BBC1 that year, and sold in excess of 180.000 copies. "Heartbeat", also from The Right Place, was re-recorded in 2007 as a dance track by Topmodelz. "Better By You, Better Than Me," a song written by Wright for Spooky Tooth, was covered by Judas Priest on its 1978 album Stained Class.

In 2008, Wright toured with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. In November 2008, Wright released the six-track EP Waiting to Catch the Light on the Larkio Music label. In late 2008, Wright also released The Light Of A Million Suns which features a re-recorded version of his hit My Love Is Alive in which son Dorian gets a recording credit.