"Ewan MacColl putting on a false Scottish accent to go with his false Scottish name, it's all showbiz!"
usual old crap Muskie - shame on you
MacColl was brought up in a Scots household and was busking Scots ballads he'd learned at home to cinema queues during the depression.
His name-change had SWA to do with show-biz.
He woked i the theatre, where actors changed their names as a habit, he associated with Hugh MacDairmaid (whose real name was Grieve) and loads of others who did the same thing to promote Scottish culture and he was on the run from the police as an army deserter - take your pick as to why he changed his name.
Wonder why Robert Zimmrmann's name change is never an issue!!
The feller's been dead for over a quarter of a century - isn't it time you people made an effort t get something right?
Jim Carroll