You know that when Paul got word of Mr. Mescal playing him in the Biopic, he was all like, "Yes!! I am a masculine man with heterosexual abs and am manly! He is the perfect actor to portray me."
And Paul's team was like, "whatever you say, queen."
too many people IS so much meaner than how do you sleep in hindsight bc hdys is just a group project of “let’s write the most clever rhyming couplets we can about how paul sucks” but too many people is paul smiling as he leans in to whisper into john’s ear that “you may think you’re hot shit now but i’m going to come out of this so much happier and more successful than you will ever be and you will wake up to realize you ruined your own life.” and wouldn’t you know that’s exactly what happened. can’t you just imagine that song haunting john as he sat in the dakota during the late 70s, cursing his writer’s block and deciding to throw paul with his guitar out of the house rather than concede that he had been right?
Too many people is the good luck babe bridge
Veep style tv shows about the Beatles that I want
You can absolutely tell which accents they hear often. The Scottish is a good parody - you'd never mistake them for someone from Edinburgh, but it's still precise as a comedy turn. But they're so much more familiar with Cockney, and the Liverpool ones are amazing. I love the recognition that there are different Liverpool accents, with variations based on age, gender, social standing.
In that interview, they're showing off UK accents for an American interviewer, and it's very playful. In British interviews, accent jokes have more of an edge, and are usually about Received Pronunciation (the term for posh middle class/upper middle class English, an elite accent without regional markers). The Beatles could do RP, and slipped into it as a joke - but it's a joke that underlines their Liverpool accents and identity.
The British class system was (and is) oppressive and all-pervasive. If you're British, your accent is a mark of status. You can't opt out of it: as soon as you open your mouth, people can and do 'place' you in the hierarchy. Urban industrial accents tend to be at the bottom of the heap - and the prejudice against them was even more blatant in the 1960s. To give you an idea: the BBC had a semofficial ban on Birmingham accents (if you're American, think John Oliver or Cat Deeley). Birmingham was the second-biggest city in the UK, but you'd be lucky to hear its citizens on national radio or television. Working class people who wanted to get ahead were under serious pressure to switch and speak RP.
So the Beatles' Liverpool voices were a huge deal. And they faced real criticism for them. At 0,27, the interviewer mentions the politician (and future prime minister) Ted Heath, who said that he "couldn't distinguish what they were saying as the Queen's English" - in other words, not RP, not proper, not fit for a wider audience. John's piss-taking response is absolutely characteristic, slipping into posh RP to mock Heath ("I can't understand Teddy saying that at all"). He returns to his normal voice, then he and Paul both do deliberately broad Liverpool accents. They're saying they could do RP but they won't.
In a more relaxed mood, here's Paul, George and Ringo having fun with RP and Liverpool voices - but still reminding you that working class boys like them aren't often heard on the BBC.
Some background practice starring the beatles
Paul has lived in that house in St John’s Wood since early Beatles days and on a wall in one of the living rooms is still a hand-painted mural, that John Lennon and he did in the sixties. It must have been at the height of psychedelia. When they had it redecorated Paul just got them to paint around it. Everyone knows John was a talented artist, but perhaps they don’t realise that Paul is too.
