Jagger opened the free concert with a few words in Spanish in front of tens of thousands of fans in a country where hear music genres like rock was long frowned upon after the 1959 revolution.
the legendary British rock band the Rolling Stones played last night for the first in socialist Cuba before a huge audience.
the veteran group led by Mick Jagger opened with” Jumping jack flash “to heat your first visit to the Caribbean island chosen to close his tour of Latin American Olé Tour that began in Argentina and then went to Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico .
Jagger opened the concert free with a few words in Spanish in front of tens of thousands of fans in a country where hear musical genres like rock was long frowned upon after the revolution 1959.
“Hola Havana, goodnight my people of Cuba,” said Jagger in the spectacular stage set outdoor at the Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana. According to official data, the huge area located a few kilometers from the Plaza de la Revolution holds up to 200 thousand people, but is estimated to double or more met.
Unlike as in other countries, the Stones were presented yesterday for free in a country where the average salary in the state sector, which continues to work the vast majority of Cubans, around $ 25 a month.
the English group, just earlier this month, announced that adding the stop in Havana to be part of the current Cuban opening. The US president, Barack Obama, closed only three days before a historic visit to the island communist.
the thaw with the country’s neighbor and former enemy ideology has catapulted Cuba at first flat stage international. The country is mired plus years in a reform process economic market.
the Stones concert generated for days interest in the huge symbolism in full “Spring” political Cuban .
the rock was frowned upon for years after the triumph of the 1959 revolution.
gender musical that revolutionized the world in the second half of the twentieth century for its style rebellious and irreverent became banned from radio and TV Cuban, after being described as the “spearhead” lifestyle capitalist.
for several years the rock and is accepted yet widely on the island.
several hundreds of thousands of Cubans began to enter the 14 city sports for a show that already He received all kinds of superlatives, “historic”, “excessive”, “unique” … and a certainty treated concert complex ever seen on the island.
Groups fans with t black emblazoned with the image of the band British spent Thursday night in tents or sleeping on sidewalks waiting for the sound of the first chords.
“We expected this moment for a long time and emotion we overflows, is extraordinary, historic, so that other bands of the size of the Stones come to Cuba, “he told AFP Jose Albero Espinosa, 30, happy to have as a good place for the show.
“There could be among the first, but since this place does not we will lose any details,” said for his part before the show Swnien Morera, 27, hair and nails blue. Morera secured a place near the stage, behind the area reserved for guests. “We expect many sensations new,” he said.
A heavy security police secured the tranquility of the concert, which ruled a ban on drinking alcohol.
Three days after the also historic visit to Cuba of President Obama, the band British, who closed her” Latin America Olé “rattled the city sports opened before the revolution of Fidel Castro in 1959.
Despite the absence of promotional advertising, except for its mention in the press state, an estimated half a million people flooded the complex.
the country gravy, trova and are prepared for weeks for his “satanic Majesties” touched on Good Friday with a stage 80 meters long and 10 big screens. The Rolling Stones sealed big reconciliation of Cuba with rock.
“This concert will be good because you will understand finally that the rock was not the music of the enemy. revolutions do not have to be closed, “he told AFP Marco Antonio Morales, a university professor in Mexico, 42.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood they landed Thursday on the island and promised a show special. “Hello Cuba,” wrote in his Twitter account.
History. has never been a decree prohibiting explicitly the rock, but music “enemy” was banned for years by the regime of Fidel Castro.
imitate the dress or the hair of idols was considered a “problem ideological”.
Cubans remember how at that time listened to the Beatles or the Rolling Stones in the privacy of their rooms on metal plates in the form of vinyl or tapes they exchanged sly.
“rock and roll was associated with the long hair, drugs, in such clothes, was frowned upon. and linked with the United States, no matter if the music came from Britain or Australia, was in English and thus was bad, “recalls Eddie Escobar, 45, founder of the Yellow Submarine, one of the few bars in the capital Cuban dedicated to rock.
from the 80, this musical genre began to be tolerated until they won at the state media.
Some artists Americans were then allowed to go on the island. But the arrival of the Rolling Stones far exceeds any precedent, the importance of the band and the audience.
In 1979, after detente orchestrated by Presidents Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter, Billy Joel and Kris Kristofferson made history at the Festival Havana Jam, but those three days of concerts were dedicated to the interior of the Karl Marx theater (5,000 seats) and were by invitation.
in 2005, Audioslave American group, composed of members of the bands “grunge” Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine, brought together tens of thousands of people in the “Anti-Imperialist Tribune”, located next to the current US embassy in Havana.
Four years later, in the same square, Kool and The Gang danced to hundreds of thousands of Cubans with a concert also exceptional.
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