‘… And it makes me wonder’ is a chorus in Led Zeppelin’s song Stairway to Heaven. Even though they traveled in a strange world, travelers mostly stuck to the music they brought along on their cassette players. Maybe it was a little piece of home to them. So Norwegian Wood, whereby the Beatles introduced the sitar into pop music (or was it Tomorrow never knows?) for many was the closest approach to Indian music. Even though there was such a lot of wonderful local music like Ravi Shankar’s who even had performed in Woodstock. Or Qawala music: Nusrat Ali Fateh Khan’s Must, Must, Must is my absolute favourite. Whether in the Pudding Shop in Istanbul, in the Amir Kabir in Tehran, at Siggi’s in Kabul, in the secluded Marco Polo Tea House in Bamiyan, as well as in the Ringo Guesthouse in Delhi – the same old stuff everywhere: Led Zeppelin, Neil Young (Old man), the Stones, CSNY (Marrakesh Express!), Procol Harum (Glimpses of Nirvana) with the famous dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Liza Minelli (see below). And whatever blared out of the loudspeakers at that time.