"All I wanted to do was sing a bit of rock 'n' roll and not be responsible, and sing 'Be-Bop-a-Lula.'" -- Lennon John Lennon himself admits, via archival radio interviews. "In the early days, I would often write a melody, a lyric in my head to some other song because I can't write music," he explains. "I would carry it around as somebody else's song and then change it when putting it down on paper, or down on tape - consciously change it because I knew somebody's going to sue me or everybody's going to say 'what a rip off'..." The early Beatles were influenced by American soul and rock music. But this turned out to be a good thing, because it was the mistakes he made, as much as anything, that birthed the unique Beatles sound. In this feature, meet some of the musicians whose records were among the selections in the jukebox and whose work was a source of inspiration to John Lennon.