Gary Wright, the musician finest identified for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” died Monday. He was 80. Wright’s son Dorian confirmed the information to Variety.

His son Justin advised NBC News the trigger was Parkinson’s illness and Lewy physique dementia.

He was a founding member of the U.Okay.-based band Spooky Tooth and was an in-demand session participant from the late ’60s on, taking part in on all of George Harrison’s solo albums — including his epochal 1970 debut, “All Things Must Pass” — and on Ringo Starr’s early singles (and, a lot later, with Starr’s All-Starr Band) in addition to Nilsson, Tim Rose, B.B. King and lots of others. Yet he can be finest remembered for the mid-1970s hits talked about above, which had been half of a vaguely mystical, synthesizer-driven type of hit single of the period — Steve Miller’s “Fly Like an Eagle” is one other instance — and which noticed him showing on many music exhibits, sporting satin gear and rocking a keytar.

His first album for Warner Bros., “The Dream Weaver” — with a title observe impressed by a visit to India with Harrison — was launched in 1975, and whereas the single was a gradual builder, by the following spring it was a serious hit and Wright had change into an enormous star. However, it was almost two years earlier than he adopted with “The Light of Smiles,” and his subsequent efforts didn’t method his earlier success. His final charting single was 1981’s “Really Wanna Know You.”

In the following years, Wright specialised in instrumental and soundtrack work — though he made a shock look in the 1992 movie “Wayne’s World,” singing a re-recorded model of “Dream Weaver” — however he returned to extra standard rock music and issued a sequence of albums, with the final one, “Connected,” being launched in 2010. He toured ceaselessly, as a solo act, with Spooky Tooth and with Ringo’s All-Starr Band.

Over the years, his songs have continued to be coated — Chaka Khan recorded a blazing model of “Love Is Alive” for her 1984 smash album “I Feel for You” — and sampled by artists starting from Jay-Z to Tone-Loc.