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posted 21-02-2012 22:06
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Albarn's just made a play for it but there must be a worse one.
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posted 21-02-2012 22:40
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David Bowie surely?
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posted 21-02-2012 23:09
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I was thinking of him but I thought that he grew up completely in Brixton
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posted 22-02-2012 00:03
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Bored of Education wrote:
I was thinking of him but I thought that he grew up completely in Brixton
He did.
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posted 22-02-2012 00:06
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Seemed to be the done thing during the punk
I'm thinking of 'Hurry Up Harry cam on'.
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posted 22-02-2012 00:44
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Bored of Education wrote:
I was thinking of him but I thought that he grew up completely in Brixton
I wouldn't have thought that the sound of the Bow bells went that far though.
Another offender is Colin Newman, whose accent can get utterly distracting.
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posted 22-02-2012 00:51
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Wouldn't it be nice, to get on with my neighbours.....
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posted 22-02-2012 00:54
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I wouldn't have thought that the sound of the Bow bells went that far though.
That's bollocks really. The cockney accent really is Lodon. Steptoe and son was Shepherds Bush
Another offender is Colin Newman, whose accent can get utterly distracting.
Bloody hell, I couldn't even think what Colin Newman sang let alone what he sounded like.
Bored of Education wrote:
I was thinking of him but I thought that he grew up completely in Brixton
He did.
Apparently, he moved to Bromley when he was 9 in a similar fashion to Albarn moving to Colchester around the same time.
I'm thinking of 'Hurry Up Harry cam on'
Yes, a bit far removed from Hersham
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posted 22-02-2012 01:08
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Bored of Education wrote:
Bloody hell, I couldn't even think what Colin Newman sang let alone what he sounded like.
He sounds like this.
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posted 22-02-2012 07:29
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Did Ian Dury sing in his natural accent or was it hammed up a bit?
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posted 22-02-2012 09:23
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Anthony Newley.
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posted 22-02-2012 13:48
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Bowie went to my old school, Ravenswood. Used to be Bromley Technical College.
Peter Frampton was a former student too.
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posted 22-02-2012 14:02
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I can't think of any who fake it, and in fact, most singers I can think of are far more "common" in their speaking voices than their singing voices.
"Howld me clowse .. Wiv your luv loit shinin'" is awful, but then David Essex did speak a bit like that.
If you hear Bowie speak in interviews in the early 70s, he's fairly well spoken (not posh, but educated); he got more "Cockney", or God knows what, later.
I don't assume people do it consciously as it can depend who you're mixing with. I watched Alan Titchmarch interview Simon Callow a couple of weeks back and his accent got posher and posher, took him the rest of the programme to get back to Northern.
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posted 22-02-2012 14:25
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Cream's Mother's Lament off Disraeli Gears.
Not sure any of them were cockneys.
(And that song sounds like something from Monty Python's ... what a blot on a terrific record.)
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posted 22-02-2012 14:57
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Billie Joe Armstrong.
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posted 22-02-2012 15:58
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Ian Hunter from Mott the Hoople does a sort of faux Bowie. According to wikipedia he's from Shropshire.
Brett Anderson isn't a proper Londoner, is he? His accent sounds quite authentic to my inexpert ears though.
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posted 22-02-2012 15:58
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Alexei Sayle's in "'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?"
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posted 23-02-2012 00:12
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I wouldn't have thought that the sound of the Bow bells went that far though.
That's bollocks really. The cockney accent really is Lodon. Steptoe and son was Shepherds Bush
To be born within ear shot of Bow bells doesn't refer to Bow in east London but Bow Church in the City of London's square mile. QI. Still wouldn't have reached that far though
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posted 23-02-2012 00:14
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As much as I like Quadrophenia, the
'Bell Boy, Keep your lip buttoned daaan..
always runnin round at someone's bleedin' 'eel'
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