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Gary Malcolm Wright is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive", and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music. Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British heavy rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records. While in England, he played keyboards on former Beatle George Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), so beginning a friendship that inspired the Indian religious themes and spirituality inherent in Wright's subsequent songwriting. His work since the late 1980s has embraced world music and the new age genre, although none of his post-1976 releases has matched the popularity of The Dream Weaver.

Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg is a French politician of the Radical Party of the Left. He has been a Deputy to the European Parliament (1979-1983), a Deputy to the (French) National Assembly and a Government Minister. He is a professor at Panthéon-Assas University. From 1981 to 1983 he was President of the Movement of Radicals of the Left in the French Parliament.