When athletic height jumping was considered done and perfected, there was the Fosbury flop which opened new possibilities. Do you think there was such a moment in the music history? When someone showed how things can be done and from there everyone is using his/her technique?
Dave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn't provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in "You Really Got Me"... but a year later they could.