Best cockney accent in music history

[moolag]

Though I dislike the song, I quite like the cockney school choir chorus on 'Another Brick In the Wall'

'All in all it's just a-nava brick in the waw'

[evilC]

Best cockney accent in music history

'Looking Down On London'

[Amor de Cosmos]

Best cockney accent in music history

Happy Days Toy Town

[Sits]

Best cockney accent in music history

Phil Daniels in Parklife

[treibeis]

Best cockney accent in music history

Bad Man

[Fussbudget]

Best cockney accent in music history

I gave all those songs a try, but there really is no such thing as a good cockney accent, is there? Horrible.

[Gangster Octopus]

Best cockney accent in music history

Leeve it aaht, you slaaaag.

No, there isn't...

[evilC]

Best cockney accent in music history

I think there is, but I can't just can't think of a prominent 'public' example right now. I reckon it's more prone than most to descending into horrible (self-)parody.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Best cockney accent in music history

[Borracho]

Best cockney accent in music history

[Andy C]

Best cockney accent in music history

Gus Elen

[Benjm]

Best cockney accent in music history



With a special mention for the backing vocals.

[Bored Of Education]

Best cockney accent in music history

John Lydon

[Stumpy Pepys]

Best cockney accent in music history

Hardly any genuine cockneys on this list (The Cockney Rejects aside).

Pink Floyd choir — Islington Green School
John Lydon — Finsbury Park
Ian Dury — Harrow
Steve Marriott — Manor Park, Essex
Phil Daniels — Essex
Smiley Culture — Stockwell
Gus Elen — Pimlico
Dennis Waterman — Clapham

[Stumpy Pepys]

Best cockney accent in music history

Therefore, I think the answer would be Hackney's own Mike Reid.

[Bored Of Education]

Best cockney accent in music history

Hardly any genuine cockneys on this list (The Cockney Rejects aside).

As I suggested on the other thread, the Cockney accent being within the Bow is no longer relevant. The Cockney accent is widening as the more generic London accent widens into the Home Counties, hence Blur's Mockney being a bastardisation of the Estuary English.

[RobM]

Best cockney accent in music history

Blur's Mockney being a result of them being affected cunts (with the possible exception of Graam Coxon).

[Amor de Cosmos]

Best cockney accent in music history

Stumpy Pepys wrote:

Hardly any genuine cockneys on this list (The Cockney Rejects aside).

Steve Marriott — Manor Park, Essex

Manor Park was part of the immediate post-war Cockney migration area, plus Marriott's Dad ran a jellied eel stall. I mean apart from being a Pearly King what else do you need. The three other original band members Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston came from Plaistow, Stepney and Stretford respectively.

[My Name Is Ian]

Best cockney accent in music history

Neither Chas nor Dave are Cockneys - Chas was born in Edmonton and Dave in Enfield.

Considering the paucity of applicants for this position, I'm going to nominate myself for this award.

[Bored Of Education]

Best cockney accent in music history

Marc Bolan, born in Hackney
Max Bygraves, born in Rotherhithe
Phil Collen, born in Hackney
Samantha Fox, born in Mile End
Steve Harris, born in Leytonstone
Gary Holton, born in Hackney
Kenney Jones, born in Stepney
Ronnie Lane, born in Bow
Dizzee Rascal , born in Bow
Tommy Steele, born in Bermondsey
Sid Vicious, born in Hackney
Jah Wobble, born in Stepney

[My Name Is Ian]

Best cockney accent in music history

Well, at least I'm not bottom of that list.

[Wyatt Earp]

Best cockney accent in music history

It's always been bollocks, the Cockney = East End thing. It's born of a confusion: people thinking "Bow Bells" means the bells of Bow Church, whereas actually, I believe, it almost certainly refers to St-Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside.

So originally, "Cockney" meant someone from the City; by extension, it's someone from London.

I'm told you can hear St-Mary-le-Bow from the site of the old Charing Cross hospital, which however you slice it makes me a right perishin' Cockney sparrer and no mistake, me old China.

[MsD]

Best cockney accent in music history

Much of Finsbury Park is in Hackney, too. Whatever relevance that has to anything.

[My Name Is Ian]

Best cockney accent in music history

True, dat. I was born in South Islington, next to Clerkenwell - about 2 miles from St-Mary-le-Bow. As it goes, I've only ever been to the East End a couple of times.

I once had a conversation with a guy in a pub in Brighton in which he attempted to claim that a Cockney was someone born "within 100 yards of Bethnal Green Hospital", to which the only thing I could think of to say was, "Were you born in Bethnal Green Hospital, by any chance?"

[Wyatt Earp]

Best cockney accent in music history

I only done me Cadbury's Milk Chocolate (doctorate) in Lofts and Attics (Mathematics) in the East End, din I?