The regional accents aspect was very important at the time, I remember. We schoolkids in Dudley had hardly ever heard pop stars speaking in accents other than from the south. Such accents were generally confined to comedians: Arthur Askey, Morecambe and Wise, Wilfred Pickles, …
The regional accents aspect was very important at the time, I remember. We schoolkids in Dudley had hardly ever heard pop stars speaking in accents other than from the south. Such accents were generally confined to comedians: Arthur Askey, Morecambe and Wise, Wilfred Pickles, …