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-->--[[http://blogcritics.org/music/article/modest-mouse-on-freebird/ Isaac Brock]] of Music/ModestMouse.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' someone shouts for "Freebird" during Lightning [=McQueen=]'s sponsors' appearance.

* A variation appears in ''Film/StepBrothers''. The band hired to play at a fancy reception is very clear about being a ''strictly 80's doo-wop Billy Joel'' cover-band. One member of the audience keeps drunkenly (and abusively) yelling requests for other Billy Joel songs until the leader of the band flips out and they all storm off. Their reaction seems to imply they get heckled like this a lot.

* Creator/BillyConnolly has a song about being hassled to play the Music/EngelbertHumperdinck song "Ten Guitars". Connelly's song is "[[NonNaturalNumberGag Nine and a Half]] Guitars".

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* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' someone shouts for "Freebird" during Lightning [=McQueen=]'s sponsors' appearance.

* Creator/BillyConnolly has a song about being hassled to play the Music/EngelbertHumperdinck song "Ten Guitars". Connelly's song is "[[NonNaturalNumberGag Nine and a Half]] Guitars"

* Billy Connolly has a song about being hassled to play the song "Ten Guitars".

* In Brazil, the equivalent of "Freebird!" is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlUjSIjBiM#t=0m22s Toca]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Seixas Raul]]!

-->There are a few songs that every piano player just knows, just as sure as your average guitar player needs to learn [[Music/DeepPurple "Smoke on the Water"]]. [[Music/{{Journey}} "Don't Stop Believing"]] is one of them; "Music/{{Imagine}}", that's a good one; [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore the really obvious one is]] [[Music/BillyJoel "Piano Man"]]. So just for your own sanity, learn that one because you will hear a lot of requests for that one. I swear, one day I'm gonna put up a ''Film/WaynesWorld''-style sign that says [[BerserkButton "Absolutely No 'Piano Man']]".

** In ''Guitar Hero II'', one of the random loading screen messages says, "Remember, NO STAIRWAY!", possibly calling back to ''Film/WaynesWorld''. Or commenting on the fact that Harmonix had/has yet to license Led Zeppelin songs for ''Guitar Hero'' or ''VideoGame/RockBand''. Possibly even both.

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* Do not ask Music/RyanAdams to play a Music/BryanAdams song. Especially "[[BerserkButton Summer Of 69]]".[[note]]Ryan seems to have gotten over this in the last couple of years and will occasionally cover "Run to You" in his sets. Also, according to Ryan, in the one reported instance of a fan being kicked out of a show for this, it was more the fact that he was repeatedly yelling over a quiet song than ''what'' he was yelling [[/note]]

** Richard Cheese had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOueVel0oiY this]] on an album.

** Music/TheDoubleclicks wrote a song "The Guy Who Yelled Freebird" in response to having heard this request a few too many times - apparently this just made people request it more. Eventually they ''did'' record a "Free Bird" cover as a treat for fans after successfully crowdfunding an album, which seems to have done the trick.

** ** Music/TheDoubleclicks wrote a song "The Guy Who Yelled Freebird" in response to having heard this request a few too many times - apparently this just made people request it more. Eventually they ''did'' record a "Free Bird" cover as a treat for fans after successfully crowdfunding an album, which seems to have done the trick.

* On the Bomb the Music Industry! album, ''Album Minus Band'' is a song called "FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRRRRRD! FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRD!!!!," which is about playing oft-requested cover songs to bad crowds.

There are songs so famous (or infamous) that they're universally adored (or reviled) in certain circles, constantly being requested (possibly to the point of annoyance) on the radio, at a concert, or in a lounge. Of course, SmallReferencePools mean these tend to be the same songs across different genres. This is a CyclicTrope, as time marches on and these songs go into and out of style.

* Do not ask Music/RyanAdams to play a Music/BryanAdams song. Especially "[[BerserkButton Summer Of 69]]".[[note]]Ryan seems to have gotten over this in the last couple of years and will occasionally cover "Run to You" in his sets. Also, according to Ruan, in the one reported instance of a fan being kicked out of a show for this, it was more the fact that he was repeatedly yelling over a quiet song than ''what'' he was yelling [[/note]]

* Do not ask Music/RyanAdams to play a Music/BryanAdams song. Especially "[[BerserkButton Summer Of 69]]".[[note]]Ryan seems to have gotten over this in the last couple of years and will occasionally cover "Run to You" in his sets.[[/note]]

There are songs so famous (or infamous) that they're universally adored (or reviled) in certain circles, constantly being requested (possibly to the point of annoyance) on the radio, at a concert or in a lounge. Of course, SmallReferencePools mean these tend to be the same songs across different genres. This is a CyclicTrope, as time marches on and these songs go into and out of style.

** In a Creator/PattonOswalt comedy double album, he gets demands for his "piss drinkers" routine, and fields a number of other requests. At first he reacts to the barrage of demands by saying that it's his version of hell, but then decides that it's actually great to have people begging for his material.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', 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/LynyrdSkynyrd's "Free Bird", of course. On the Music/ModestMouse live album ''Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again'', when an audience member shouts for the band to play "Freebird," the lead singer Isaac Brock responds with [[http://blogcritics.org/music/article/modest-mouse-on-freebird/ this speech]].

* On the Bomb the Music Industry! album ''Album Minus Band'' is a song called "FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRRRRRD! FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRD!!!!," which is about playing oft requested cover songs to bad crowds.

** One times Zappa and his band performed somewhere in Europe when a fan requested "Whippin' Post" by Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand. As Zappa or none of his band members knew the song they couldn't fulfill this bizarre request, though Zappa did try to find out what the song was like, learned to play it, added it to his concert tours and included it on CD soon afterwards.
* According to legend, Music/NatKingCole began his singing career when a drunken club parton requested he sing "Sweet Lorraine". Cole protested that he didn't sing, but the club's owner forced him to fulfill the request. That song would become his first hit in 1940 and the signature song of his Trio years.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', someone in the audience asks Music/LudwigVanBeethoven to play "Freebird". Beethoven wails on him, and subsequently quits music for a career in wrestling.

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