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UNBELIEVABLE: Gary wright - The Untold Story

Bankrupt landlord received £25,000 Covid loan despite pub closing six months before pandemic

Gary Wright, 46, received £25,000 on behalf of his St Helens pub despite it closing six months before the pandemic

The Independent UK

Winter blast of snow, ice and bitter cold grips the US from the Midwest to the East Coast

A major winter blast of snow, ice, high winds and plunging temperatures are stirring up dangerous conditions across the U.S. central and southern states all the way to the East Coast

The Independent UK

“I have never heard a better ‘rock’ piano”: From The Beatles to Bowie, Queen to Elton John, how the rich, distinctive tone of the Trident Studios house piano graced the grooves of some of the finest songs ever recorded

It’s what Macca played on Hey Jude

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“He wanted his version of the song to be a stark, heavy solo-piano thing, but they convinced him to turn it into a grand, crashing, theatrical monster-ballad, complete with orchestra”: The story of Nilsson's Without You

How the singer transformed an album track into one of the most abiding love songs of all time

MusicRadar

"Not even Zeppelin or the Stones had ever done what we did": How Mick Jones invented Foreigner and paved the way for the multi-million-selling albums that dominated the next decade

Against all expectations, Foreigner's debut album sold millions. This is the real story behind one of the biggest debut albums ever

Louder

“Gary Wright split from Spooky Tooth, declaring the album ‘an utter failure’… but he was wrong”: Ceremony did more for prog than anybody realised at the time (except the French)

Their 1970 collaboration with avant-garde composer Pierre Henry bombed almost everywhere, but pioneered an approach that later became its own sub-genre

Louder

Gary Wright obituary

Singer and songwriter whose 1976 hit Dream Weaver combined yearning vocals with a haunting and distinctive synthesiser sound

The Guardian - UK

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Gary Wright, singer of Dream Weaver and Love is Alive, dies aged 80

Frequent collaborator of George Harrison and synthesiser pioneer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia

The Guardian - AU

Gary Wright, ‘Dream Weaver’ and ‘Love is Alive’ singer dies at 80

Gary Wright’s 1975 album ‘The Dream Weaver’ became his breakthrough hit. He also played keyboard on Beatle George Harrison’s hit album ‘All Things Must Pass.’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘His ideas resonate’: how the Unabomber’s dangerous anti-tech manifesto lives on

Ted Kaczynski’s ‘prescient’ views have been praised by Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson – and continue to draw misguided new followers

The Guardian - UK

Stargazers' warning as increasing light pollution worldwide blinks out night's skies

Increasing light pollution worldwide means looking up at the stars in the night's sky is becoming increasingly difficult for people who live in populated areas, according to experts

Daily Mirror

Thousands of striking Royal Mail workers stage rally near Parliament

They said conditions proposed by the company are ‘unachievable’ and would ‘destroy’ the service

Evening Standard

Community fundraiser launched to repair damaged path named in honour of tragic Scots Marine

A community effort to raise funds to repair a section of path near Strathblane named after a Marine killed in action in 2006 has been launched. Strathblane Community Development Trust has launched an online fundraiser to raise enough cash to carry o

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