man questioned under Terrorism act for listening to Led Zeppelin

We truly live in strange and unsettling times when a passenger can be frogmarched from an aeroplane for the "crime" of loving rock'n'roll. Last week, Harraj Mann, from Hartlepool, was hauled off a London-bound flight from Durham Tees Valley airport and questioned under the Terrorism Act after his taste in music apparently aroused the suspicions of a taxi driver.

The driver had permitted Mann to play his choice of music on the way to the airport, but what some might regard as a nigh-on impeccable selection of classic rock classics, including Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale, Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song and London Calling by the Clash, concerned the cabbie to such an extent that he saw fit to summon the authorities.

The overvigilant driver was perhaps ruffled not only by the songs' titles, but by some of their lyrics: London Calling, for example, announces, "War is declared and battle come down", while Immigrant Song speaks of how "the hammer of the gods will rive our ship to new lands, to fight the horde". But which other songs might you wish to think twice about playing on public transport - especially if you happen to be a young British Muslim?

Broadly speaking, one might want to avoid any songs that are remotely transport-related - Iggy Pop's The Passenger, for example, or anything by Jefferson Airplane. On no account should one play Pink Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky, or, in this post-Richard Reeves era, Traffic's Hole in My Shoe. As an added security measure, perhaps also steer clear of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi; it might make your driver edgy. Plus all that tut-tutting about paving paradise and putting up parking lots suggests some kind of anti-capitalist agenda.

Flamboyant suggestions of violence are also a no-no, so this rules out John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom, The Jam's Eton Rifles, and anything from the oeuvre of Bomb Da Bass. You should also refrain from playing the Clash's Guns of Brixton, not only for the lyric "When they kick at your front door/ How you gonna come? With your hands on your head, Or on the trigger of your gun?" but also because it might suggest you are harbouring a grudge about the unlawful killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in south London.

Songs that could imply your support for any kind of struggle or holy war are inadvisable - Bruce Springsteen's No Surrender, for example, or Pat Benatar: Love is a Battlefield, T Rex: Children of the Revolution, and potentially Phil Collins's Another Day in Paradise. (Phil is more generally inadvisable simply on grounds of taste.) A final word of caution for all you Flock of Seagulls fans out there: don't go playing I Ran in a minicab anytime soon.