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    With 1975's spooky, synthy 'Dream Weaver,' Gary Wright 'saw the future'

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Sep 05, 2023 3 minutes
    Gary Wright performing in 1978..

    LOS ANGELES — It says something about Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" — about its eerie atmosphere and its immersive sensuality — that the song both inspired Wes Craven to create "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and soundtracked the stirring of Mike Myers' loins as he beholds Tia Carrere in a scene from "Wayne's World."

    A plush soft-rock ballad with images of "starry skies" and "highways of fantasy," "Dream Weaver" was the title track from Wright's 1975 solo album, which

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