“Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright

"Dream Weaver" was the first single from Gary Wright's third album, The Dream Weaver (1975), and it floats in on a cloud of keyboards: apart from Jim Keltner's drums, every sound on it came from Wright's banks of keys, with Wright singing over the shimmer like a man half awake.

The spark was spiritual. George Harrison handed Wright a copy of Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, and a Yogananda poem about the mind weaving dreams set the song in motion; the phrase itself had already turned up in John Lennon's 1970 song "God". Wright never quite let go of it, cutting it again as "Dreamweaver" for the 1986 Fire and Ice soundtrack and once more, longer, for Wayne's World in 1992.

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