Songs that are instantly recognisable from the first few bars

[CormoranStrike]

I’ll start with:

Summer Nights from Grease.

First thought was Baker Street but Mollypolly beat me to it.

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
House of Pain - Jump Around
Dr Dre - Forgot About Dre
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams/The Chain
The Jam - Town Called Malice
Chuck Berry - You Can Never Tell
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird/Sweet Home Alabama
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Gold Digger
Crazy In Love
Blue Monday
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Space Cowboy
A Little Respect

Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
Whatever - Oasis

But as PP said any song you know well is recognisable!

Up The Junction - Squeeze
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

We'll Live and Die In These Towns
Hold My Hand
Kayleigh
Welcome to the Black Parade

Shania Twain - Man I feel like a woman! 😂

Boys Don't Cry
Jump Around
Unfinished Sympathy
Sympathy for the Devil
Ain't Nobody

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
I write sins not tragedies - Panic at the Disco

Paint it black just takes a few chords

Tiny Dancer Elton John

Bad Moon Rising - Credence Clearwater Revival

White Flag - Dido

Renegade master

500 miles, The Proclaimers (or maybe because DS is obsessed).

Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Genius of Love
Rebel Rebel
Vienna
Fade to Grey

But I am good at this and used to win all the 80s pub quizzes (preens)

Green Fields of France
One by Metallica
One Way by the Levellers
Livin on a Prayer

Don’t look back in anger
A Million Love Songs
Things Can Only Get Better

Blasphemous rumours
Losing my religion
Everybody hurts
Sensoria

Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry

Sound and Vision - David Bowie
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode

Thunderstruck -AC/DC
Purple rain - Prince
With or without you - U2

Satisfaction - Tbe Rolling Stones

Aha- Take On Me
Nessun Dorma
Time To Say Goodbye

Prince - 1999 (it was on the radio yesterday...). Happy days!