- Elvis Presley
- Malý Richard
- Chuck Berry
- Kamarát Holly
- Eddie Cochran
- Carl Perkins
- Kamarát
- Muddy Waters
- Howlin' Wolf
- B.B. King
- Otis Blackwell
- Leiber &Stoller
- Phil Spector
- Brian Wilson
- Bob Dylan
- The Beatles (sami)
Literárne vplyvy Johna Lennona
- Lewis Carroll
- James Joyce
- Dylan Thomas
- T.S. Eliot
- Allen Ginsberg
- William Burroughs
- Jack Kerouac
- J.D. Salinger
- H.G. Wells
- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
- C.S. Lewis
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Philip K. Dick
- Stanislaw Lem
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Isaac Asimov
Politické vplyvy Johna Lennona
- Karol Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Vladimír Lenin
- Leon Trockij
- Rosa Luxemburgová
- Emma Goldmanová
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Che Guevara
- Fidel Castro
- Ho Či Min
- Mahátma Gándhí
- Nelson Mandela
- Bertrand Russell
- Albert Einstein
Duchovné vplyvy Johna Lennona
- Ježiš Kristus
- Budha
- Lao Tzu
- Konfucius
- Mahátma Gándhí
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Ram Dass
- Timothy Leary
- Alan Watts