David_Bentley_(journalist)
David Bentley (journalist)
Australian journalist and musician
David Bentley is an Australian journalist and musician.[1][2]
Bentley is known for writing the 1969 hit "In a Broken Dream" for his band Python Lee Jackson, in which he was a keyboard player and singer.[1][2] "In a Broken Dream", featuring Rod Stewart, peaked at #3 on the UK singles chart.[1]
As a freelance journalist, Bentley has worked as a foreign correspondent, travel writer, food critic, columnist and feature writer.[1]
In 1995, Bentley was awarded the Gold Walkley for exposing a literary hoax for The Courier Mail, involving Miles Franklin Award winner Helen Demidenko, author of The Hand That Signed the Paper, who had falsely claimed Ukrainian ancestry.[3][4][5]
The controversy has since been widely discussed, with Bentley credited with uncovering one of Australia's most intriguing literary hoaxes.[6][7][8][9]