- Made the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts twice in 1976: first with "Dream Weaver", which went gold and stayed at #2 for three weeks; then with "Love Is Alive", which also peaked at #2, this time for two weeks.
- Was the lead singer of the late 1960s early 1970s hard rock band Spooky Tooth.
- Appeared on the show Captain Video as a child.
- Played keyboards on the sessions that produced George Harrison's classic 1970 album "All Things Must Pass".
- Has two sons: Justin, and Dorian, two grandchildren.
- He was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive".
- Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records.
- A former child actor, Wright performed on Broadway in the hit musical Fanny before studying medicine and then psychology in New York and Berlin.
- In August 2014, Wright announced the imminent publication of his autobiography, Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison. Coinciding with the book's release, Wright's Warner Bros. albums were reissued for digital download.
- He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease around six or seven years before his death.
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