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'''Python Lee Jackson''' was a [[1960s]] [[Australia]]n [[band (music)|music]]. The group's most famous [[Chart-topper|hit]] was ''"In a Broken Dream''" featuring [[Rod Stewart]] as guest [[singer|vocalist]].

==Members in Australia==

*Malcolm McGee - [[human voice|vocals]]

*David Bentley - [[songwriter]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[vocals]]

*Malcolm McGee - [[vocals]]

*David Bentley - songwriter, [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[vocals]]

*David Montgomery - [[drums]]

*Mick Liber - [[guitar]]

*Lloyd Hudson - [[bass guitar|bass]]

*Bob Welsh - [[piano]]

*Virgil East - [[bass guitar|bass]]

==Early years ==

The original Python Lee Jackson line up came together around June 1966 when keyboard player and singer David Bentley and drummer David Montgomery left [[Sydney]] group, [[Jeff St John & The Id]] to for a new band with former Denverman guitarist Mick Liber and bass player Lloyd Hudson. Relcocating to [[Melbourne]], the quartet added former [[Wild Cherries]] singer Malcolm McGee and signed to CBS.

Python Lee Jackson released two singles[[single (music)|single]]s in quick succession, “Emergency"Emergency Ward”Ward" c/w “Who"Who Do You Love?”" and a cover of [[Major Lance]]’s “Um-Um – "Um-Um–Um-Um-Um-Um”Um" c/w “Big"Big City Lights”Lights" in November and December 1966 before Bentley left, his place taken by Bob Welsh on piano. Also around this time, Virgil East succeeded Lloyd Hudson on bass.

The original Python Lee Jackson line up came together around June 1966 when keyboard player and singer David Bentley and drummer David Montgomery left Sydney group, [[Jeff St John & The Id]] to for a new band with former Denverman guitarist Mick Liber and bass player Lloyd Hudson. Relcocating to Melbourne, the quartet added former [[Wild Cherries]] singer Malcolm McGee and signed to CBS.

Python Lee Jackson released two singles in quick succession, “Emergency Ward” c/w “Who Do You Love?” and a cover of [[Major Lance]]’s “Um-Um – Um-Um-Um-Um” c/w “Big City Lights” in November and December 1966 before Bentley left, his place taken by Bob Welsh on piano. Also around this time, Virgil East succeeded Lloyd Hudson on bass.

The group became a popular live attraction in Melbourne and on 3 March 1967, played one of their shows at the Catcher with Chelsea Set, Party Machine and Adderly Smith Blues Band.

The new line up released two further singles, a cover of [[Sam and Dave]]’s “Hold"Hold On, I’m Coming”Coming" c/w “Your"Your Mother Should Have Warned You”You" and “It’s"It’s a Wonder”Wonder" c/w “I"I Keep forgetting”Forgetting" before breakinbreaking up in the summer of 1967.

Mick Liber briefly played with Jeff St John’s formed group, The Id, which have reformed and then worked with [[Billy Thorpe]] and Gulliver Smith’s band, The Noyes while Virgil East joined Jeff St John’s next project, Yama. Malcolm McGee joined The Virgil Brothers.

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==Members in UK==

*David Bentley - [[songwriter]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[vocals]]

*David Bentley - songwriter, [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[vocals]]

*David Montgomery - [[drums]]

*Mick Liber - [[guitar]]

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*Gary Boyle - [[guitar]]

==''"In A Broken Dream''"==

Stewart originally only sang 'guide' vocals on this track, and the intention was for another singer to sing the recording 'proper', once Python Lee Jackson recruited another singer. It was felt that Stewart's vocals were so good that the single would be released as it was.

Recorded in London in 1969, "In a Broken Dream" languished until the mid-70s when it rose to number three in the British[[UK chartsSingles Chart]] and #56 in the US[[United States|U.S.]] [[Billboard Hot Hundred100]].

In [[Europe]], the song became something of a classic. It turned up on the [[soundtrack]] of films[[film]]s and documentaries (including the acclaimed art house [[film|movie]] ''[[Breaking the Waves]]'') and became the subject of many [[cover versionsversion]]s.

[[Rod Stewart]] included the [[song]] on two anthologies of previously recorded work and, in the mid-90s [[1990s]], an English band, [[Thunder (band)|Thunder]], delivered a high octane reading that propelled it into Britishthe [[United Kingdom|UK]] chartschart for the second time.

Most recently, "In A Broken Dream" surfaced on the leading edge of a collection of songs recorded by British [[singer]] [[Kathryn Williams]] - along with songs by [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Neil Young]] and [[Kurt Cobain]].

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