I've heard numerous songs that use the tune to Pachabel's Canon to some extent or another.

Trans Siberian Orchestra isn't only christmas music. They have one album which is not - it's called Beethoven's Last Night, and it is more like a rock opera. In it are a lot of songs that take famaliar themes and melodies from Beethoven's music - probably half of the songs aren't totally original, and there are a couple medleys:
http://www.amazon.com/Beethovens-Last-Night-Trans-Siberian-Orchestra/dp/B00004S7LI


The introduction to The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X is Holst's Mars - it's a good rendition of it, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mr9TAKMzU&feature=related
I will note that it wouldn't fit well on a mixed CD, because the song is a ~25 minute long metal song. While after the introduction it doesn't really revisit the Mars theme much, there are some other melodic similarities through some parts of the song.

I don't really have any pop music to mention, but I'm sure someone else can chime in on that stuff.
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First one I thought of was "Rhapsody in the Rain" by Lou Christie, inspired by Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet"
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Christie

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