Right. Exactly. Actually it is a fact that rarely the person to do something first is the same person to make that thing popular. In that respect, you could say that there are two types of influence: direct, and indirect. The important one for the purposes of a discussion like this is direct influence - that is to say, how other artists actually got the ideas. With that in mind, it is irrelevant whether or not the Beatles were responsible for inventing such and such an idea; what counts is whether or not they made it popular.
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