There's an episode in the first series of The Wire in which Omar (who makes a decent living robbing drug dealers) leaves for New York. McNulty, a detective, asks him about his plans, and Omar responds, "There must be something happening, it's too big a town." This is a Steve Earle lyric, taken from the song N.Y.C.

And in an episode of The Sopranos, Tony asks Christopher why he's late, and is told, "the highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive", obviously taken from from Born To Run. Looking on is a character played by Steve Van Zandt, Springsteen's guitarist.

My favourite Soprano's musical in joke is Christopher quoting Springsteen lyrics to Silvio - who gives him a look of such utter uncomprehension. Classic.

but it raised a grin that when they went to the safehouse in the most recent episode of spooks having been forced to run to ground, Malcolm is disgusted at the state of the gaff, pointing out that among one of the few things there is a cassette copy of Led Zeppelins 4th album, to which Harry, without missing a beat says

"I was looking for that"

AND THEN...during a moment of anger, he smashes the tape and later on he's seen trying to fix the same one!

honestly, don't spooks earn enough dosh to be able to afford the occasional trek to HMV?