Zayn Malik's New Music Was Inspired by John Lennon

Zayn Malik goes for a late night bite to eat at Vivid restaurant on Tuesday night (March 29) in Brooklyn, New York.

The 23-year-old singer recently opened up to NME about being inspired by The Beatles and John Lennon.

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He said that the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” had a big impact on his new track “fOoL fOr YoU.”

“I was listening to a lot of John Lennon the week I got that loop. And there was this one song I got addicted to, with Indian music at the front of it, sitar, and then it becomes, like, another song​,” he explained.