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* ''[[Casablanca]]'': "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."
** Referenced all the time, usually mangled as "[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Play it again, Sam]]"
* ''[[WaynesWayne's World]]'': The guitar store has a sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven".
** [[Truth in Television]]. Lots of specialist guitar shops actually do have that sign.
** The "No ''Stairway to Heaven''" sign is parodied in the [[Discworld]] novel [[Discworld (Literature)/Soul Music|Soul Music]], where a music shop is rushed by people who want to try guitars after hearing the protagonist perform. At the end, the owner hires a troll whose only job is to harm anyone who tries to play the song.
* On ''[[Cars]]'' someone shouts for "Freebird" during Lightning McQueen's sponsors' appearance.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* If watching [[Live Action TV]] [[Sit ComSitcom|Sit Coms]] from [[The Sixties]] has taught anyone anything, it's that the drunk in the piano bar will always ask for "Melancholy Baby".
* In ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', Riker is giving a trombone concert and Troi insists that he play a fictional tune "Nightbird". He reluctantly agrees, and then is saved by a summons to the bridge.
 
== [[Music]] ==
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* Billy Connolly has a song about being hassled to play the song "Ten Guitars".
* Not quite music, but it's audio on tape, so: There's a recording of [[Bill Hicks]] being inexplicably harassed with this by a heckler. Bill owns him with a two-minute-long, borderline-psychotic rant about the inanity of this trope, then ''storms off stage'' and is later coaxed back on.
* Do not ask [[Ryan Adams (Music)|Ryan Adams]] to play a [[Bryan Adams (Music)|Bryan Adams]] song. Especially "[[Berserk Button|Summer Of 69]]".
* In Brazil, the equivalent of "Freebird!" is "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlUjSIjBiM#t=0m22s Toca] [[wikipedia:Raul Seixas|Raul]]!
** In Finland, the song requested is [[Black Sabbath|Paranoid]]
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