Greyed out songs on iPhone and not visible at all in iTunes

I have recently had to replace my iphone due to the microphone breaking, when restoring my new iphone and attempting to transfer all my music onto it, I noticed it asking me to sign in to the apple store with an email address I have never used or recognised.
The majority of my music is not sourced from itunes and I now realise that in my collection I have a few music files that were originally bought and connected to somebody elses apple ID. It is asking me to sign in to these ID's when trying to sync the songs, the problem being they are not my apple ID's and I don't know the passwords so it is impossible. So the songs appear greyed out on my iphone (un playable, can't edit/delete etc) and don't appear in the music tab of my iphone at all in itunes.
At the same time of my iphone replacement I have also bought a macbook air. To fix the above problem I thought I would be able to start fresh with a brand new itunes library on my macbook. I ripped a few cd's and started a new library, (it warned me that I would have to erase the current library and start again + authorize the macbook) but the greyed out songs still appear and every time i sync my iphone it asks me to sign in to the other apple ID's connected with the individual songs.
How do I remove these files completely?
Thanks for your help.

I did not do any updates on my iphone 4.  Lo and behold, suddenly these circles with dots appeared next to some songs on the ipod.  The ipod would speed scroll through them, and then grey them out.  Like for you, I could not play them anymore.  So I deleted all the songs on the ipod, and reloaded them from my iTunes.  Now, the greyed songs are all visible, with duplicate new loads in black.  What the h**k is this?  How do I get rid of all the songs that have been deleted but still are all listed in grey?

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