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Pop music?

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There is a lot of examples where classical music quotes classical music. I would appreciate a few characteristic examples of 20th or 21st century (pop) music quoting classical music, such as (I think)

  1. Roll over Beethoven (and many others, I guess), quoting Beethoven's Symphony_No._5_
  2. Abba's Ode to Freedom from their 2021 album Voyage, quoting Tchaikowsky's Swan Lake

--Austrian (talk) 14:08, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Men at Work, "Down Under", a deliberate quotation of Kookaburra_(song), (and clearly "done for the purposes of characterization") Number One hit in USA, Aus and NZ, then, 3 decades later, subject of a court case and found on technical grounds to be plagiarisation. 1.159.9.95 (talk) 06:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]