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TIL before the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night was released in America, an executive asked the director to dub the voices of the group with mid-Atlantic accents. Paul McCartney angrily replied, "Look, if we can understand a fucking cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool."

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