Strange that one always feels that you ,yourself do not have an accent? I actually tried to redo that song in my Studio , he had sent me the drumtrack and I was going to add bass. In fairness , he did have a slight cold?, when Richard heard him singing , he sent me a text saying , were screwed. I took the original mp3 and altered the EQ a bit to make it tolerable.
I am sure it would be! ( Sound of Music)