Does anyone know what John Lennon thought about the 70’s bands that were sort of replacing The Beatles like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple? He was a fan of the Electric Light Orchestra, even dubbing them the "sons of the Beatles". He liked the song "Showdown" in particular., The song, composed by John Lennon but credited to Lennon-McCartney, was a challenge that the bespectacled Beatle needed all his bandmates to help him with. It was split into three parts: ‘The Dirty Old Man,’ ‘The Junkie,’ and ‘The Gunman (Satire of ’50s R&R)’, and it posed a host of rhythmic challenges for the group., The Beatles, one of the most influential bands in music history, were no strangers to controversy. While their music transformed the global pop scene, their off-stage antics often grabbed headlines too. From John Lennon's infamous comment about being more popular than Jesus to rumors about Paul, But back in 1968 John Lennon explained how he was always influenced by those writing and performing music around him, and how this made its way into the band's music., One song in particular that John Lennon liked but the rest of the band hated was ‘Revolution’. While a lot of the band were away, Lennon wrote the track and said that he wanted to put it out as a single. The rest of the band pushed back, saying it was too slow for them to put out as a single., As Lennon says in The Beatles’ Anthology about the track, “It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer, when I was younger, on the Rubber Soul album. My first expression of it was a song called ‘The Word’..