The muscular bass lines played by Louis Johnson as a session musician on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller albums are known to millions – in particular his classic, driving bass part for the Jackson song Billie Jean.
Other post-Soviet countries may be guarded, however catchy her entry song, Tick Tock, might be.
Malvina Reynolds' song Little Boxes and albums such as Arcade Fire's The Suburbs continued the theme.
The sound of the Leicestershire victory song, Fields of Grace Road, ringing out across Chelmsford after the end of a 37-match winless streak, and their first away victory since 2010, was certainly unfamiliar, though.
And that song – well, Gary wrote that song for Elton John a few years ago.
"Somebody said one song sounded like Jim Morrison," says Fassbender, "but then the next one sounded like the Sex Pistols.
On Saturday, a district court in the Black Sea port city sentenced 18-year-old Margarita Radetskaya – who can be seen in the video, at the head of six girls dancing to the song Touch You Tonight by the Jamaican dancehall artist Aidonia – to 15 days of administrative arrest for petty hooliganism, it said in a statement.
It's impossible not to be charmed by Sheila Hancock singing Coming Down from Aldermaston, a merrily satirical 1962 protest song that feels perfectly of its time.
You'd have surely got long odds on that Peter Gabriel tune being his last - okay then, second last - song, but it was really rather moving.
The Beatles song appropriate to the occasion was A Hard Day's Night as Osborne announced that the government was still running a deficit at 4.5% of national income.
The song had been planned as the first solo single for Boyzone's Stephen Gately.
