Those tunes are the foundation of the music we've been listening to for close to the last 50 years and all the biggest artists from the Beatles to the Stones to Zep and all the way to today would freely admit it.
Ain't nothing like fishing RP and listening to WOMR when they play the oldies. It's like a time machine, same as it ever was....
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine