Aus artist David Bentley receives credit on A$AP Rocky song

Australian singer-songwriter (and now also a journalist) David Bentley is due for an extra burst of royalties from a 43-year-old song that’s been picked up by A$AP Rocky and Mark Ronson.

Bentley was singer and keyboard player with Python Lee Jackson, who moved to London. In 1970 he felt that his voice didn’t do justice to a song he wrote for Python Lee Jackson, In a Broken Dream, and brought in Rod Stewart as an un-credited session singer. Stewart used the fee to buy seat covers for his car.

The song was a hit in 1972 in the UK and the US, peaking at #3 on the UK chart and #56 in the US. Stewart’s re-recording of the track with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones was eventually released in 2009 as part of the The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998.

Now, the Stewart vocals on the song’s hook are being sampled by US rapper A$AP Rocky for a new track Everyday, which features Miguel doing a new version of the hook.

Everyday features on A$AP Rocky’s upcoming Mark Ronson-produced second album At.Long.Last.A$AP, out June 2 in the US on RCA records.