anyway we agree it is not necessary any more to be popular or commercial to decide to sing popular songs in a fake American accent in 2014, we do, don@t we? I hve given names of performers who have achieved popularit pre and post 1960s, gracie fields, ray davies, ian dury, all of whom were successful without having to put on a poorly imitated american accent, ray davies and ian dury are/ were also songwriters.