The Importance of American Accents in British Music

Peter Tuggill's theory was that British bands were copying their American influences, and then later on they became more British. That doesn't really work - we still have loads of British artists that sing with American accents. Adele is a perfect example: She speaks with a cockney accent, just like Charlotte Aubrey, but she sings in an American accent. And I'm gonna try and play you an example now. This next song that I'm gonna do for you, it changed my life. The guy that it's about changed my life so dramatically,. You can hear how our Essex, her accent is. Now we could listen to loads of Adele here speaking in front of like