Influence

Useless idea. Impossible to measure. For example… probably… (and I’m not saying, “influential for me”)…

No influence

• Big‐Band Jazz

• Xylophones

• Elvis Presley group (Vegas imitators, arn’t they?)

• Chuck Berry (they cover, but is that influence?)

• Art Music–Jazz fusion

• Beatles 64–65 (well, I’ve heard nothing like)

• The Doors

• James Brown (as music)

• Quadrophonic sound

• Lou Reed

• John Lennon and Paul McCartney (solo)

• ‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree’

• Dark Side of the Moon

• Bruce Springsteen

• (Buckingham/Nicks era) Fleetwood Mac

• Trevor Horn

• Celine Dion

• Drake

• the Firewire interface standard

• Oasis

• Adele

Influential

• Frank Sinatra

• Doo Wop

• Les Paul

• Lonnie Donegan

• Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound

• Guitar FX by Jimi Hendrix

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

• Janis Joplin

• ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’

• Motown (circa. mid sixties, ‘Baby Love’ etc.)

• Dave Swarbrick

• David Bowie

• Nuggets compilation album

• The Ramones

• Saturday Night Fever compilation album

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Suicide

• Kate Bush

• Casio keyboards

• ‘The Message’

• Ableton Live