Gary Wright, whose biography was squeezed into a single song by pop history, often so mercilessly unfair, is dead. Although you have to say that it wasn’t just any song, but “Dream Weaver”, one of the three signature tunes for this mid-seventies meltdown, which came along with so much wonderful pathos that countless film comedies use these songs when they yearn and yearn want to lay it on really thick without losing substance (the other two would be 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” and Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again”). Otherwise the emotions wouldn’t work. Half a dozen films used the 1975 song. “Toy Story 3” for example for the scene where Ken and Barbie meet. But above all the rock fan clothes “Wayne’s World”, in which “Dream Weaver” sounds whenever Mike Myer’s character of the jittery Wayne sees his beloved Cassandra.
Keyboard pioneer and composer Gary Wright is dead
