The musician Paul McCartney and John Lennon crowned as the best of the 1970s: “Huge influence”When The Beatles broke up at the end of the 1960s, neither member of the band was sentimentally looking around at who they could pass the torch of influence to. Because, despite the wild creativity that existed in the ‘60s, the new decade promised even more ambition for music. Diversity was on trend, and the limit to what musicians could do within the confines of a pop song had been completely disregarded, opening the goalposts for prolific musical strikers like Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The Beatles ended, but Lennon and McCartney pushed on in a bid to lead this new landscape through solodom. However, without invitation, Bowie joined them and thrust music into daring new spaces that both Beatles couldn’t help but simply admire.