Tunesmith - still not with you. When I listen to Fruit Tree or Fly or Which Will, the singing voice I hear is the voice of someone quite young, a bit shy and rather posh. Very RP - a voice that would have slotted right in on Radio 4, twenty-odd years ago, or on Jackanory.

Funny you use the Beatles as a contrast (rather than the Stones, say). There wasn't much of Liverpool left in the Beatles' singing voice, but there was some (listen to the Us in "Penny Lane") - which was pretty revolutionary in itself.