Are you sure about that story Gingernutz - the one I heard about was a woman who asked for the Robin Hood theme for her wedding (Bryan Adams version) and got the TV series "Robin Hood....Riding though the Glen" version.
When my dad died, he h'd already planned his funeral music - the theme from The Great Escape, his favourite movie and his favourite heroes. When we started to carry out the coffin at double-time in tune with the music, everyone in the just church just fell about laughing & crying - that really had the desired effect of really lightening the mood.
As the title said, he'd just made "the great escape" - awesome dude, with a cantankerous sense of humour and irony, but above all an inspiration. When he was diagnosed with terminal liver/kidney cancer at 73, he went straight out and bought himself a GSX 600 and spent every weekend he could out riding with me, my brother and our mates, continually telling my brother to speed up and stop holding him back. He kept riding until he was too weak to hold the bike up at a standstill - man, do I miss him. :-(