Polythene Pam, or While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Perrrrverrrrted? Allerrrrrted?) and maybe not Maggie Mae

...I'm a bit of a fan and I've just gone through a selection of their songs in my head, from Love Me Do to Let It Be, and the only accent I can hear is a Northern English, specifically (surprise, surprise!) Liverpudlian.

They may, possibly, have put on a slight twang when they did the old rock 'n' roll classics early on in their career (take for example John's vocal on 'Mister Moonlight' on the 'Beatles For Sale' album), but generally speaking, I think they sang more in their own accents than most of their contemporaries.

Is probably the obvious one, although of course done deliberately.

If you think of something like 'Drive My Car' - there's a discernable mid-Atlantic twang. But, as with most things Fabs, it's all their own.

I'm drunk, and I haven't heard it in a looong time, but I'm sure that's sung with a drop of the mid Atlantic.

I think there are deliberately english sounding examples like Martha My Dear, and american ones like Come Together and Helter Skelter. In Help, it's an american "somebardy", not an english "somebody".

but then neither I nor anybody (any bardy?)I know has ever pronounced it 'somebardy'. No really, I don't get it. Stimps, what do you think? And what about that punctuation?