Songs you just assume everybody has heard at least once

Wonderwall
Hotel California
Tubthumping
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Song 2
Don’t Stop Me Now
Hey Jude

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There She Goes

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My Girl (Temptations not Madness)

Common People

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There’s loads of Queen songs that fit this question

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Come On Eileen

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The National Anthem of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

(Though I’m never singing the new lyrics)

Dancing queen

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Match of the Day theme tune

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The Chain

seven nation army

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Was about to quibble with this by saying I don’t think my 9yo has heard it (good benchmark) & then I realised that I’ve definitely played Rumours in the house a good few times (we have it on Cd and vinyl) plus it then occurred to me that we always listen to Radcliffe & Maconie on weekends and they have ‘The Chain’ as a long running feature so she must have heard it 100 times

Good answer

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If not the first part then everyone at least knows the instrumental bit.

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I’ll Be There For You by The Rembrandts

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Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

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Loads of Motown / 60s soul would fit into this category I reckon, but particularly

Respect
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay (EDIT - damn you, Funk Haus)
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted

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Let Me Entertain You

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Angels

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Suspicious Minds

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Actually I think the most slyly pervasive Robbie song might be Millennium, which always seems to be on