Gary Wright Useless: ‘Dream Weaver’ Singer Was 80

Gary Wright, the musician finest identified for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” has died. He was 80. Wright’s son Dorian confirmed the information to Selection; no explanation for loss of life was introduced.

He was a founding member of the U.Okay.-based Spooky Tooth and was a member from 1967 to 1970, and was an in-demand session participant from the late ’60s on, taking part in on most of George Harrison’s solo albums — together with his epochal 1970 debut, “All Issues Should Go” — and on Ringo Starr’s early singles and, a lot later,…