Henry Wilfrid Brambell, was an Irish film and television actor best known for his role in the British television series "Steptoe and Son", and also performed alongside the Beatles in their film "A Hard Day's Night", playing which English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, that gained worldwide fame as the bass guitarist and singer for the rock band the Beatles, fictional grandfather?
Wilfrid Brambell Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish film and television actor best known for his role in the British television series "Steptoe and Son". He also performed alongside the Beatles in their film "A Hard Day's Night", playing Paul McCartney's fictional grandfather.
British pop music British pop music is popular music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom. It emerged in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. Like American pop music it has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, as well as that of the Singles Chart usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music, and utilising key technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. From the British Invasion of the 1960s, led by The Beatles, British pop music has alternated between acts and genres with national appeal and those with international success that have had a considerable impact on the development of the wider genre and on popular music in general.