Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Also Mimi had a posh accent and didn't like John sounding working class, she didn't think much of George apparently because he sounded Scouse.
Mimi was horrified when she first saw him talking on the telly. Apparently, he was laying on the scouse accent really thick. He never talked that way at home. I think there was an element for all of them of just winding up the London media brigade. They were really “We're from the north-west — deal with it!”. Except for Ringo. He just talked that way naturally, and never put on an act for anybody.
There's a whole book to be written about the discovery of the north by the south, and how the north suddenly became “cool” at the beginning of the sixties and right through it. You've got actors like Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay who are part of that phenomenon, along with a few others. And of course Corrie.