Its a fascinating sidebar discussion, and I'm very familiar with it and lived through it.
The trouble is a posthumous look back actually redefines history, it redefines what actually occurred and typically by selectively latching on to some influences, while ignoring others that in the test of time have proved less popular. Or have been associated with other things.
Don't get me wrong either, I love the acts you listed there. But theres some very obscure ones that get recognized retroactively, that were more unknowns while music was unfolding. For them to be influential, they have to be heard, exposed, to wider audiences to be that influence.
So in that line Black Sabbath elicited speed metal. A band like Queen did a spin on that and a tune like Stone Cold Crazy inspired speed metal, possibly punk, etc. Listen to the tune. Any Punk band could play that cover and the crowd goes wild. Similarly MC5 kick out the Jams. But even a band like that needed a lot of help to get exposed. Needed gigs with bands like Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult to get recognized, and BOC PLAYED MC5 songs and had them on their gigs because BOC loved punk and were precursors of it. Alan Lanier of BOC played with Patti Smith, recorded on her albums, married her, she played on BOC albums, wrote tunes. BOC producers went on to formulate punk from Patti Smith, Dictators, to the Clash. With those actually citing BOC.
Trouble is in the sands of time BOC have washed away and become unpopular due to SNL and cowbell mockery.
But that's why I mention that revisiting brings a lot of distortion.
My own take is bands like the Kinks, The Animals, King Krimson, The Who, were so ahead of their time the world had to catch up. Those are some true links though that were well heard and listened to at the time.
But the true godfather imo is Link Wray, with his legendary Rumble. According to Jimmi Page the greatest song ever recorded. That started a lot being that it was 1958. Although that can be a revisionist view as well.