“Times are changing, right?” he asked Mick Jagger in Spanish to the crowd of ecstatic Cubans who attended Friday night at first concert of the Rolling Stones on the communist island ever censured the rock.
at 72, J agger led to delirium to the hundreds of thousands of Cubans, and many foreign , who waited patiently for several hours the start of the show’s biggest light and sound ever seen in Havana.
at least 400 thousand people, as the state website Cubadebate, overflowed Sports City development where free and outdoor Stones show.
The legendary British band started the concert with “Jumping Jack Flash”. For a little over 18 hours played songs. But in addition to seduce with his voice and dance Possessed, Jagger Spanish interacted with the audience and left messages that will rumble for a long time.
JAGGER MICK PHRASES. “Here we are finally, huh? We are confident that this night will be unforgettable,” said the leader of the Rolling Stones.
Jagger surprised to evoke the censorship of rock in the communist country the sixties and seventies, when the English music was linked to the imperialist enemy and ideological “deviation”.
Then Cubans listened to Beatles or the Rolling Stones in the privacy of their rooms, in metal plates in the form of vinyl or tapes they exchanged like smuggling.
“Time ago it was hard to hear our music here in Cuba, “Jagger addressed the attendees, and topped with phrases that will surely make history:
” But here we are playing for you in your beautiful land … I think that finally the time are changing, right? “.
Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood performed hits like ‘Paint it black’, ‘Sympathy for the devil,’ Star me up ‘,’ Miss you ‘ and topped with ‘Satisfaction’.
“Thank Cuba for the incredible and unforgettable show!” wrote the band tweeted.
CUBA wILL NOT BE tHE SAME. the Cubans, who this week received the historic visit of US President Barack Obama, showed his astonishment downloading music, lights and sound that brought dinosaurs of rock.
“this is the first real concert that has been in Cuba. It was wonderful. I roquero all life, and it was here forbidden to listen to everything, “he told AFP Abel Perez, a craftsman of 40 years of long hair.
Marben Mora, 30, not only dazzled with I saw through the giant screens.
“it was fantastic. Those English rockers speaking Spanish for the Cuban people was better still. There are many changes, and more are still “, said that telecommunications technician.
The Rolling Stones landed in Cuba 61 containers with 500 tons of sound, video and lighting.
It was the last stop of the tour Latin America Olé that included Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Uruguay.
the country salsa , trova and son enjoyed his “satanic Majesties” Good Friday without mishap amid heavy security.
“the scene surprised us. That technology had never been here. Everything is changing, only that they came means it is changing, “he told AFP Leonardo Perez, a taxi driver 56
His wife Iramis Mendez, 53, believes the same.: “we are from the period of the ban. Everything has changed, we think that Cuba will not be the same again “.
AFP
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