The Beautiful Game is 1) nickname for soccer, especially Brazilian soccer, 2) coined by Pele and served as title for his autobiography and 3) above, forming a hat trick of memes or tropes, the opening number of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber taking place in Belfast about soccer loving people with other things on their mind, but the title is taken indeed from 1 and 2.
Beautiful game indeed (4)
also known as “The Boys in the Photograph”, by Ben Elton (I almost read as Elton John)
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 