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Python Lee Jackson were formed in December 1965 in Sydney by two men from the United Kingdom – Frank Kennington and Mick Lieber (born 1 March 1944, [[Peebles, Scotland|Peebles]], Scotland) – and David Montgomery (born September 1945, Melbourne) on drums (ex-[[Jeff St John]] & the Id). Both Lieber, on guitar, and Kennington, on vocals, were former members of the Denvermen, a surf instrumental group in Sydney, from mid-1965 and contributed to that group's single, "I Can Tell" (November).<ref name="Kimball">{{cite web | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20100314214800/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/35967/20100315-0848/www.milesago.com/artists/denvermen-2.html | url = http://www.milesago.com/Artists/friends.html | title = The Denvermen | last1 = Kimball | first1 = Duncan | publisher = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. Ice Productions | year = 2002 | archive-date = 14 March 2010 | access-date = 23 May 2017 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
With Roy James on bass guitar, Python Lee Jackson played the underground circuit. In early 1966, Kennington was deported to the UK, and former [[the Missing Links (band)|the Missing Links]] singer, Bob Brady, filled in for several months before Lieber and Montgomery put a new line-up together. In March 1966 keyboard player and singer [[David Bentley (journalist)|Dave Bentley]] (born 1943, Brisbane) left Jeff St John & the Id to join his old bandmate, Montgomery, alongside Lieber, together with former Unit 4 bass player, Lloyd Hardy (a.k.a. "Cadillac" Lloyd Hudson).<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |title=[[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] |chapter=Encyclopedia entry for 'Python Lee Jackson' |chapter-url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=660 |url-status=dead |year=1999 |publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] |___location=St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040806231537/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=660 |archive-date=6 August 2004 |isbn= 1-86508-072-1 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Lewes"/>
In June, the quartet added former [[Wild Cherries]]' Melbourne-born singer, Malcolm McGee (1 November 1945{{spaced ndash}}17 May 2012), and opened Rhubarb's club in Sydney's [[Liverpool Street, Sydney|Liverpool Street]]. McGee described how Python Lee Jackson is "the ultimate name. Group names are becoming more and more ridiculous – PLJ is the name to end all names."<ref name="Lewes">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44025118 | title = Clothes Help on the (L)Adder to success | last = Lewes | first = Jackie Lee | newspaper = [[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | volume = 34 | issue = 25 | date = 16 November 1966 | access-date = 22 May 2017 | page = 61 | via = [[National Library of Australia]] }}</ref>
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