{"id":3070,"date":"2023-09-06T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2023-09-06T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:49:16","slug":"gary-wright-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"Gary Wright Dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles \u201cDream Weaver\u201d and &#8220;Love is Alive&#8221; has died. He was 80.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wright, a soulful singer, keyboard player and synthesiser pioneer, was a founding member of British blues rock band &#8220;Spooky Tooth.&#8221; He was also an in-demand session musician who played on all of George Harrison\u2019s solo albums, Ringo Starr\u2019s early singles, songs by Nilsson,  B.B. King and many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary\u2019s son Justin shared that his father died on Monday morning at his home in California surrounded by family. He had been suffering from Parkinson\u2019s and Lewy Body dementia for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gary Wright - Dream Weaver (1975 Live) (HD)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n4ESFFtgpZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles \u201cDream Weaver\u201d and &#8220;Love is Alive&#8221; has died. He was 80.&nbsp; Wright, a soulful singer, keyboard player and synthesiser pioneer, was a founding member of British blues rock band &#8220;Spooky Tooth.&#8221; He was also an in-demand session musician who played on all of George Harrison\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gary-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}