Dream Weaver
A Memoir; Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison
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Music legend Gary Wright reflects on his professional collaboration, friendship, and spiritual journey with "quiet Beatle" George Harrison.
Best known for his multiplatinum hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive,” Gary Wright came to prominence as a singer and songwriter during the golden age of rock in the 1970s. What is not as well known to the public, however, is Wright’s spiritual side. At the heart of this memoir is the spiritual conversion and journey that Wright experienced alongside his close friend George Harrison. Until Harrison’s death in 2001, the two spent decades together writing songs, eating Indian fare, talking philosophy, and gardening.
In addition to featuring lyrics to a never-released recording of a song cowritten by Wright and George Harrison in 1971, titled “To Discover Yourself,” this memoir includes a cache of never-before-seen photos.
Also available is a deluxe e-book featuring an audio recording of “To Discover Yourself.”
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Most famous for his mid- 70s solo hits "Dream Weaver" and "Love is Alive," former Spooky Tooth front man stitches together a quilt of his life, starting with his early days in New Jersey and then in London with his first band the New York Tymes and his early success with Spooky Tooth. His mercurial rise and fall as solo artist follows, as does his deepening spiritual understanding of life, and his days gardening, playing music, and discussing Indian philosophy with George Harrison. In pedestrian prose, Wright recalls his apprehension at first meeting Harrison, who had asked Wright to play on All Things Must Pass, but such nervousness melts in the face of Harrison's peaceful aura and spiritual magnetism. As their relationship develops, Harrison introduces Wright to Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda, providing a morsel for Wright's growing appetite for spirituality. Although the book features several never-before-seen photographs as well as the previously unreleased lyrics of "To Discover Yourself," co-written by Wright and Harrison, Wright's narrative is surprisingly lackluster.
