Gary Malcolm Wright (born April 26, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer famous for his 1976 hit song "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive", and for his role in helps set the synthesizer as the main instrument in rock and pop music. Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he spent seven years in London as, alternately, members of the British heavy rock band, Spooky Tooth, and solo artists at A & amp; M Records. While in England, he played keyboards on the triple album of former Beatle George Harrison All Things Must Pass (1970), thus starting a friendship that inspired the religious themes of India and the spirituality attached to Wright's next songwriting. His work since the late 1980s has embraced the world of music and the new age genre, although no post-1976 release has matched the popularity of The Dream Weaver.
A former child actor, Wright appeared on Broadway in hit Fanny before learning medicine and then psychology in New York and Berlin. After meeting Chris Blackwell of Island Records in Europe, Wright moved to London, where he helped found Spooky Tooth as a popular direct acting. He also served as the band's main songwriter on their recording - among them, a well-regarded album Spooky Two <1969) and You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw ( 1973). His solo album Footprint (1971), recorded with contributions from Harrison, coincided with the formation of Wright's short-band Wonderwheel, which included guitarist Mick Jones. Also during the early 1970s, Wright played on the famous footage by B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and Ronnie Spector, while his music association with Harrison survived until shortly before his last death in 2001.
Wright switched to a movie soundtrack in the early 1980s, which made her re-record her most popular song, "Dream Weaver", for the 1992 Wayne's World comedy film. Following Spooky Tooth's reunion tour in 2004, Wright has often performed live, either as a member of Starr's All-Starr Band, with his own live band, or on the next Spooky Tooth reunion. Wright's latest solo album, including Waiting to Catch the Light (2008) and Connected (2010), have all been published on Larklio's record label. In 2014, Penguin Random House published his autobiography, entitled Dreamweaver: Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison.
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Gary Wright was born and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey. A little actor, she made her TV debut at the age of seven, at her Captain Video and Video Rangers show, filmed in New York. Among other acting jobs, he appeared in TV and radio commercials, before being offered the part in Broadway's 1954 production of the musical Fanny . Wright plays the role of Cesario, son of Fanny, played by the future of Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Henderson. He spent two years in production, where he performed with Henderson on The Ed Sullivan Show.
After studying pianos and organs, Wright led various local rock bands while attending high school in Tenafly, New Jersey. In 1959, he made his first commercial recording, with Billy Markle at New York's NBC Radio studio. Credited to "Gary & Billy", the single "Working After School" was released on 20th Century Fox Records in 1960.
Seeing music as "too unstable" as a career choice, as he put it forward, Wright learns to become a doctor at College of William & amp; Mary in Virginia and New York University before attending Downstate Medical College for a year, while continuing to perform with local bands. Having specialized in psychology in New York, he then went to West Germany in 1966 to complete his studies at Berlin Free University.
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Careers
1967-70: With Spooky Tooth
Wright has described his musical influences as "early R & B" - ie, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Bobby Bland - along with rock artists Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis and The Beatles. When in Europe in 1967, Wright abandoned his plans to become a doctor and toured locally with a band he formed, the New York Times. When the latter endorsed the British Traffic Group - in Oslo in Norway, according to Wright - he met Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. Wright recalled that he and Blackwell had the same friends in Jimmy Miller, a New York-born island producer, acting like Spencer Davis Group and Traffic.
Blackwell invited Wright to London, where he joined British singer and pianist Mike Harrison and drummer Mike Kellie in their Art band (formerly VIP). The group soon changed its name to Spooky Tooth, with Wright as joint vocalist and organist of Hammond. While noting the lack of significant commercial success of his career, The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & amp; Roll describes Spooky Tooth as "a stronghold of the British hard rock scene".
Spooky Tooth's first album is It's All About , released on the Island in June 1968. Produced by Miller, contains Wright-composed "Sunshine Help Me" and six songs he wrote along with Miller, Harrison or Luther Grosvenor, the band's guitarist. Spooky Two , often considered the band's best work, followed in March 1969, with Miller re-producing. Wright compiled or composed together seven of the eight album tracks, including "That Was Only Yesterday" and "Better By You, Better Than Me". Spooky Two sold well in America but, like It's All About , failed to get into the top 40 albums list of the UK.
The third Spooky Tooth album is Ceremony , a collaboration initiated by Wright with French electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry, released in December 1969. The songwriter for all songs is credited to Henry and Wright, after the latter has passed the recording band to Henry for what The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia term "processed musique concrÃÆ'¨te overdubs".
Although Wright has traditionally given experimental influence in Spooky Tooth, he regretted the change in musical direction, said in a 1973 interview: "We should really get off after Spooky Two but we're getting into a non- and then he brought it back to France and mixed it up again. "With bassist Greg Ridley having left the band in 1969 to join Humble Pie, Wright left in January of 1970 for a pursuing a solo career.
1970-72 : Solo career at A & amp; M Records, Wonderwheel, and London session work
Extraction
After signing with A & amp; M Records, Wright noted extraction (1970) in London with musicians including Kellie, guitarist Hugh McCracken, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White. Wright co-produced the album with Andy Johns, who has been a recording engineer on Spooky Two and Ceremony . The album included "Get on the Right Road", released as a single, and "The Wrong Time", written by Wright and McCracken.
George Harrison All Things Must Pass
Through Voormann, Wright was invited to play the piano on the 1970s former Beatle George Harrison's All Things Must Pass . Among what writer Nicholas Schaffner later described as "a rock orchestra with almost symphonic proportions, whose credit reads like a Who's Who of the music scene", Wright is one of the album's main keyboard players, along with former Delaney & Bonnie Organic Bobby Whitlock. During the session, Wright and Harrison made lasting friendships, based on their shared music and interest in the Indian religion. In a 2009 interview with vintagerock.com, Wright described Harrison as "my spiritual mentor"; author Robert Rodriguez writes about Wright's "unique" place among musicians working with Harrison at the moment, where Wright is not a star or friend founded from years before Harrison gained fame as a Beatle, nor was he "pro studio "".
Wright played on all of Harrison's next solo album during the 1970s, as well as on another release produced by Beatle for Apple Records. These included two hit singles by former bandmate Harrisono Starr over 1971-72, "It Do not Come Easy" and "Back Off Boogaloo", and a 1971 comeback by former Ronette Ronnie Spector, "Try Some, Buy Some".
Trace
To promote Extrusion , Wright formed the band Wonderwheel in April 1971, with a lineup consisting of guitarist Jerry Donahue - soon replaced by Mick Jones - Archie Legget (bass) and Bryson Graham (drums). Donahue is one of many musicians on Wright's second album, Footprint (1971), along with George Harrison and All Things Must Pass contributor such as Voormann, White, Jim Gordon, Bobby Key and John Barham. Produced by Wright, the album includes "Stand for Our Rights", a call for social unity, partly inspired by the Vietnam War, "Two Faced Man" and "Love to Survive". In November 1971, Wright and Wonderwheel performed "Two Faced Man" at The Dick Cavett Show in New York, with Harrison accompanying the slide guitar. Wright has expressed his gratitude for the support of Harrison during his career stage, citing ex-Beatle production on Footprint and arranging the performance of Dick Cavett Show . Despite this exposure, such as Extraction , the album failed to chart.
Among other recordings during this period, Wright played the piano at Harry Nilsson's 1972 hit "Without You" and accompanied B.B. King, Starr, Gordon, Voormann and others at B.B. King in London (1971), which includes the composition of Wright "Wet Hayshark". He later participated in a London session by Jerry Lee Lewis, who was released as the double album The Session (1973). Wright also produced an eponymous album by the folk rock band Howl the Good, which was released on the label Rare Earth.
Ring of Changes
In 1972, Wright moved to Devon with Wonderwheel to work on a song for a new album, titled Ring of Changes . With Tom Duffey after replacing Leggett on bass, the band recorded songs at Olympic and Apple studios in London. After releasing "I Know" as an advanced single, A & amp; M chose to cancel the album. Wright also wrote the soundtrack for a movie by former Olympic skier Willy Bogner, Benjamin (1972), from which the German label Ariola Records released "Goodbye Sunday" as the single that year. The full soundtrack album, recorded with Jones, Leggett and Graham, was released by Ariola in 1974.
In September 1972, Wright decided to dissolve Wonderwheel and reshape Spooky Tooth. Shortly before he did so, he participated in a session for Harrison Living in the Matter of Nature (1973), an album Wright described as "a beautiful masterpiece" and his favorite Harrison album. Speaking with Chris Salewicz of Let It Rock in early 1973, Wright explained his decision to abandon his solo career: "I think my main talent is getting music together and organizing it.I am not a showman so I can not to Cat Stevens up front with only support for musicians, which I hope with Wonderwheel. "In his autobiography, however, Wright says that it was his disappointment at A & amp; M to Ring of Changes which led him to contact Blackwell about the re-establishment of Spooky Tooth.
1972-74: Re-forms Spooky Tooth
The only members of the original lineup, Wright and Mike Harrison relaunched Spooky Tooth with Jones and Graham from Wonderwheel, and Chris Stewart, a former bassist with British singer Terry Reid. Salewicz visited the band while they were recording at Island's Notting Hill studio and commented on Wright's role in the group, "explains who is the leader of the Spooky Tooth brand, and, I suspect, from the original as well"; Salewicz describes Wright as "polite, weak with the remains of a New Jersey accent, and Dudley Moore's touch of the face".
In their new album, Wright composed six of the eight songs, including "Cotton Growing Man", "Wildfire" and "Self Seeking Man", and Wright co-wrote the remaining two. With the standing of the group has increased since 1970 - a situation that music journalist Steven Rosen likened to when to Yardbirds, Move and other 1960s bands after their breakup - Spooky Tooth toured extensively to promote the album. Rolling Stone poet Jon Tiven praised Wright's songwriting on You Broke My Heart , adding: "there is tremendous consistency in this original... and 'Wildfire' is the proof that pretty much that Gary could write for Temptations if he really wanted to. "
The band released a follow-up, Witness , in November 1973, at which point Graham had gone, with Mike Kellie back on the drums. In February 1974, Stewart and Harrison also left. In January of that year, Wright accompanied George Harrison to India, where they traveled to Varanasi (Benares), the Hindu spiritual capital of India, and home to Harrison's friend Ravi Shankar. The visit will affect the spiritual quality of Wright's lyrics when he returns to his solo career.
In England, he and Harrison teamed up at The Place I Love (1974), the debut album of the Splinter English duo. In addition to playing the keyboard, Wright served as what writer Simon Leng termed "soundboard and music amanuensis" on the project, which was the first album released on the record label Dark Horse Harrison. Wright reunited with Spooky Tooth for the last album, The Mirror (1974), with Mike Patto as their new vocalist. After further personnel changes, The Mirror was released by Goodear Records in the UK in October 1974, a month after Wright disbanded the group. 1975-81: _Solo_career_on_Warner_Bros._Records "> 1975-81: Solo Career at Warner Bros.. Records
The DreamWeaver
After Spooky Tooth broke up, Wright returned to New Jersey and began composing songs for his third solo album. Under the guidance of the new manager Dee Anthony, he chose to sign a contract with Warner Bros. Records, especially since the company does not have a virtuoso keyboard among other actions. Wright said that while arranging his songs with all his stage equipment - Hammond's organ, Hohner Clavinet, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Minimoog and ARP String Ensemble - along with drum machines, that he decided to record the album "all on the keyboard", without a guitar. He admits that artists like Stevie Wonder have the same dominated keyboard, but "[Wonder] uses brass and he uses other things as well". On Wright's debut album for Warner Bros. The Dream Weaver (1975), he, David Foster and Bobby Lyle played various keyboard instruments, supported only by drummer Jim Keltner and Andy Newmark, apart from guitar parts on track "Power of Love". Jason Ankeny of AllMusic describes The Dream Weaver as "one of the first [rock albums] created solely through synthesizer technology".
The album was released in July 1975 and enjoyed minimal success in America until the release of their second single, "Dream Weaver", in November. The song, written by Wright on the acoustic guitar after his visit to India with Harrison, continues to peak at number 2 on Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Single Money Graphic. Wright's biggest hit, "Dream Weaver" sold over 1 million copies in the US and was awarded a gold disk by the RIAA in March 1976. The album went up to number 7 on Billboard 200 and was certified platinum.. "Love Is Alive", originally the lead single of the album, then hit number 2 on Hot 100, and "Made to Love You" climbed to number 79. Although this commercial success was not repeated in England, The Dream Weaver is a big seller in West Germany, where, Wright says, Spooky Tooth has become the "number one band" during 1969.
After the release of the album, Wright toured extensively with a band consisting of three keyboard players and a drummer. Her sister Lorna, also a professional singer, joined the tour band as her supporting vocalist. Subsidized by manufacturers of Moog and Oberheim synthesizers, Wright became one of the first musicians to come up with a portable keyboard, in the style of Edgar Winter. Shawn Perry of vintagerock.com praised Wright by being "responsible for the emergence of synthesizers as key instruments such as Keith Emerson and... Rick Wakeman", while Robert Rodriguez described Wright as a pioneer in "synthesizer integration into analogue recording" and the use of keyboard hybrid - a guitar known as keytar.
Among his live performances in 1976, Wright shared bills with Yes and Peter Frampton at the US Bicentennial concert held at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, playing for an audience estimated at 120,000. Wright later supported Frampton on a European tour, by which time the fourth keyboardist was added to the band. In the midst of this success, A & amp; M released the iTunes Was Was Yesterday (1976) - a compilation of songs from Wright's album for the label and choice by Spooky Tooth - mapped at number 172 in America.
Light Smile
Wright began recording his follow-up to The Dream Weaver in the summer of 1976, before Chris Charlesworth of Melody Maker reported that it would be a "logical development" of his predecessor and "again based entirely on what he can do with different types of keyboards ". Titled The Light of Smiles (1977), the album included "I Am the Sky", which Wright gave songwriting credit to Indian teachers and Kriya Yoga teacher Paramahansa Yogananda. The last poem "The Light of Smiles", taken from his book Metaphysical Meditations, appears on the inside of the arm to Wright's new album. Wright has acknowledged the teacher as his inspiration for The Dream Weaver title, and he then says about Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi : "It's a fantastic book and you win" "I'm not want to put it when you start reading it In fact, not from a spiritual point of view, but as a lecturer, it's really a classic... "
Produced again by Wright, The Light of Smiles features Wright, Foster, Peter Relich, and others on a variety of keyboard instruments, including Moog, Oberheim and ARP synthesizers, and drum contributions from Art Wood and Keltner. Released by Warner Bros. in January 1977, both the album and the main single, "Phantom Writer", match the popularity of Wright's previous releases for the label. In the US Billboard chart, The Light of Smiles goes up to number 23, while "Phantom Writer" peaks at number 43.
Touch and Stop , Headin Home ' i> and The Right Place
Wright continues to record albums for Warner Bros. until 1981, with little commercial success. Released in late 1977, Touch and Gone was mapped at number 117 in America, with the title track reaching number 73. Headin 'Home , which Joe Viglione AllMusic describes as "album apparently driven by a serious relationship in crisis ", peaking at number 147 in 1979. Among these two albums, Wright played on" If You Believe ", a song he co-wrote with Harrison in England on New Year's Day 1978, album Harrison Eponymous 1979.
Wright's last success in America was in 1981, when his album The Right Place , produced with Dean Parks, climbed to number 79. The single "Really Wanna Know You", which Wright co-wrote with Scottish singer Ali Thomson , peaking at number 16 that year. The second single from the album, "Heartbreat", appeared on Billboard's '' s Bubbling Under list, at number 107.
1982-2000: Soundtrack of world music and movies
Wright's next release focuses on the movie soundtrack and plunges into the music scene. After writing the thriller Alan Rudolph 1982 Endangered Species , he provided a soundtrack for another ski-themed movie by Willy Bogner, Fire and Ice (1986), which reached 1 on the German album chart. Wright also donated the song "Hold on to Your Vision" to the soundtrack of Cobra, a 1986 action film starring Sylvester Stallone.
Among the cover versions of Wright's famous song during this period, Chaka Khan recorded "Love Is Alive" (titled "My Love Is Alive") for her 1984 album I Feel for You , which became RIAA -certified millions of sellers. A cover of Spooky Tooth's composition "Better By You, Better Than Me", by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, was in the midst of a 1990 court case of subliminal messages in song lyrics, after two Nevadan teenagers have imposed a suicide pact self. five years earlier. From 1989 to the late 1990s, Wright's "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive" and "Can not Find the Judge" samples were featured on a variety of songs by popular rap artist and hip-hop Tone L? C, Dream Warriors, 3 Bass and MÃÆ'½ a.
Wright himself re-recorded "Dream Weaver" for the 1992 comedy film Wayne's World, a soundtrack album that topped the US charts. The song has appeared in the movies The People vs Larry Flynt (1996) and Toy Story 3 (2010). He then gave "We Can Fly" to another Bogner movie, Ski to the Max , released in IMAX theaters in October 2000.
Who I am , First Life Sign and Human Love
In 1988, Wright released Who I Am at A & amp; M-distributed Cypress Records. Among the album's contributors are Western musicians such as Harrison, White and Keltner, a group of South Indian percussions, and Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam and L. Shankar. The year before, Wright had contributed to Harrison's album Cloud Nine (1987), where he co-wrote "That's What It Takes" with Harrison and Jeff Lynne, and played keyboards on songs like "When We Remarkable ". One of the songs from Who I am , "Blind Alley", is used in the 1988 spellbinder horror movie .
Wright's next solo album is First Signs of Life (1995), recorded in Rio de Janeiro and at his own High Wave Studios in Los Angeles, and published on the Triloka/Worldly record label. The album combines Brazilian rhythms with elements of African vocal tradition, creating what AllMusic reviews call an "infectious earthly hybrid", in which "the musicians' performances radiate sincerity and joy." The First Life Sign features guest appearances from drummer Terry Bozzio, Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Silveira and Harrison. The song "Do not Try to Own Me", co-written with Duane Hitchings, was later included on Rhino Records' Best of Gary Wright: The Dream Weaver - a 1998 compilation covering his solo career from 1970 onwards, and displays extensive liner notes by Wright.
Human Love (1999) included a new version of "Wildfire" and "The Wrong Time", and "If You Believe in Heaven", a song written with Graham Gouldman who first appeared in Yang Best of Gary Wright . The album was co-produced by German music producer Marlon Klein and released on the label High Wave Music. Contribution sessions, held at High Wave and Exil Music in Bielefeld, include Hindustan classical vocalist Lakshmi Shankar, Lynne and German composer Roman Bunka.
Later career
After dedicating most of his time during the 1990s to his family, Wright then continued his more active musical career, beginning with the 2004 reunion of Spooky Tooth. Their albums and DVDs Nomad Poets Live in Germany (2007) featured Wright, Mike Harrison and Kellie from the band's original lineup. Wright's past work continues to inspire rap and dance songs in the 21st century; the "Heartbeat" sample appeared in songs by Jay-Z and Diam, while Topmodelz covered the song in 2007. Other artists who have used samples from Wright 1975-81 recordings include Dilated People, Atmosphere, Infamous Mobb, T.I. and Armand Van Helden, the latter incorporating the section "Comin 'Apart" (from The Right Place ) in his club's hit in 2004 "My My My". In addition, Eminem uses "interpolation" from "Seeking Man Spooky" from Spooky Tooth in his song "Spend Some Time" (released at Encore in 2004).
In the summer of 2008, Wright joined Ringo Starr & amp; All-Starr Band for his North American tour, with Edgar Winter also in the lineup. All-Starr Band albums and DVDs Live at the Greek Theater 2008 (2010) included Wright's performance of "Dream Weaver". Wright later described the tour as "great fun" and "great encouragement" for his career.
Waiting to Capture the Light and Connect
Two solo releases by Wright were followed in late 2008, including the new-age Waiting to Catch the Light album. A collection of instrumental pieces from "a few years" before, he described it as "the type of atmospheric music, the ambient of the album", performed on "vintage analogue synthesizer... all [recorded] on analogue bands". Also published on Larkio, Wright's own record label, EP The Light of a Million Suns comprises unreleased songs from previous album projects, along with a new version of "Love Is Alive", sung by her son Dorian.
In May 2009, Wright joined Spooky Tooth to participate in a series of concerts in London celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Island Records, before performing further with the band in Germany. In June of the following year, he released the album Connected , which marked the return of more pop and rock sounds of the 1970s. Starr, Joe Walsh and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter made a guest appearance on the "Satisfied" track, which Wright wrote with songwriter Bobby Hart. As a homage honor to his friend George Harrison, the Connected Wireless Deluxe Edition included "Never Give Up", which he and Harrison recorded in 1989, while the iTunes version added "To Find Out of Yourself," a song that the two musicians wrote together in 1971. Wright recorded the last song on the day of Harrison's death in November 2001. He also contributed to the Martin Scorsese documentary 2011 George Harrison: Living in a Materials World and was given personal memories and photos family for Olivia Harrison's book with the same title.
In 2010 and 2011, Wright toured again with Ringo Starr & amp; All-Starr Band. After a summer tour of 2011 in Europe with Starr, Wright participated in a US Hippiefest tour with artists such as Felix Cavaliere, Mark Farner, Dave Mason and Rick Derringer, before returning to Europe for a show with his own band at the end of the year.
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Personal life
Wright lives in Palos Verdes Estates, California with his wife Rose, whom he married in 1985. Previously he married Christina, who, like Tina Wright, received a joint write-up credit on Wright's "I'm Alive" (from The Mirror , "Feel for Me" ( The Dream Weaver ) and "I'm the Who Who Are Be Your Side" ( Headin 'Home ). He has two adult sons, Dorian and Justin. Justin is an Intangible band member.
Wright has spoken about the importance of creative opportunities for children in the public education system, and expressed his opposition to the prevalence of free music downloads and the disadvantage of artists. In 2008, he voiced his support for President Barack Obama's campaign, in which "Dream Weaver" was a song adopted for the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. That year, Wright discussed the message behind "Dream Weaver" with Huffington Post writers and political activist Howie Klein, saying: "With Wayne's World and all that, perceptions about the meaning of songs little changed for many people.This is a very spiritual song.'Weaver Weaver 'is really a song whose lyrical content is about the consciousness of the universe: God moves us all night - fantasies and suffering - into the Higher Realms. "
In August 2014, Wright announced an upcoming autobiographical publication, Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison . Coinciding with the release of the book, Wright Warner Bros.'s album was re-issued for digital downloads.
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Discography
Albums
- Extraction (1970)
- Traces (1971)
- Gary Wright-Spooky Tooth: It's Just Yesterday (1972)
- Benjamin - The Original Soundtrack from Motion Picture Willy Bogner (1974)
- The Dream Weaver (1975) US # 7
- Light Smile (1977) US # 23
- Touch and Stop (1977) US # 117
- Home Home (1979) AS # 147
- The Right Place (1981) US # 79
- Fire and Ice soundtrack (1986)
- Who I am (1988)
- First Life Sign (1995)
- The Best of Gary Wright: The Dream Weaver (1998)
- Human Love (1999)
- The Essentials (2003)
- Waiting to Capture the Light (2008)
- Connected (2010)
- Hits The Great (2017)
Extended playback
- One Million Sun Light (2008)
Singles
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References
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External links
- Official website
- Retrospective Career Interview from November 2015 with Pod & amp; Sods
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