Bob Seger's finally gone to Katmandu.
The Michigan-born rock singer expressed a longing to visit Nepal's capital in his 1976 hit song "Katmandu": "I think I'm goin' to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm goin' to. If I ever get outta here, that's what I'm gonna do."Seger, 45, visited Katmandu in February, to watch the World Special Olympics.
He said he met a fan he didn't know he had: King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. He said the king asked him, "What made you write that song, anyway?"
Seger said that he was "always fascinated by exotic places. I wrote the song from the perspective of someone who has yearned for a place as far from America as anybody could get," he told the king.
Seger said Katmandu, nestled in the Himalayas between India and China, was "a very mysterious and beautiful place in a lot of ways, like another planet for me."
His visit will be featured in an ABC-TV special about the Special Olympics to air in early August.