To me, like it or not, the answer is The Beatles. It just seems that most people, be it other musicians or just people in general, could not ignore what The Beatles were doing. I think even some bands who hated The Beatles would've ended up being influenced by them in some way.
My feeling is though, that Jimi Hendrix sort of got away from the Beatles a bit and then moreso Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, especially Sabbath because Sabbath almost never sung about sex or romance.
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