The gig with the veteran performers of the legendary rock band added to the accelerated opening of the island to the outside world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the times are finally changing,\u201d said Mick Jagger, lead singer of the legendary British band, on a monumental stage set up at the grounds of Havana\u2019s Sports City, a few kilometers from the Palace of the Revolution, reported dpa news.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that years ago it was hard to listen to our music here in Cuba. But here we are,\u201d said the leader of the \u201csatanic majesties, who spoke several words in Spanish to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the sports field.<\/p>\n
According to HavanaTimes\u00a0<\/em>The spectacular concert would have been unthinkable in the early decades of the Cuban Revolution, when Fidel Castro rejected any protest or counter-culture music like rock as representatives of capitalist decadence. Bands like The Beatles or the Stones themselves were banned in the 60\u2019s on Cuban radio and television.<\/p>\n The new Cuba of market reforms under Raul Castro sees rock music more kindly, as long as they are not local musicians who criticize the system or its leaders.<\/p>\n The Stones started playing three years after the revolution in Cuba. Despite the age, Jagger is 72, the band maintains an impressive freshness, not only by the lead singer\u2019s agility to jump around the stage.<\/p>\n The Stones played classics from their repertoire such as \u201cSympathy for the Devil\u201d, \u201cStart Me Up\u201d, \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d or \u201cGimme Shelter,\u201d and closed the impressive concert more than two hours after it started with their most famous song, \u201cSatisfaction\u201d.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Rolling Stones performed for the first time in Havana, Cuba on Friday night before hundreds of thousands of fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,34,79,14],"tags":[3901,16194,2000,13537,18226,36455],"class_list":["post-58051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latin-america","category-magazine","category-world","tag-cuba","tag-cuba-havana","tag-fidel-castro","tag-havana","tag-havana-concert","tag-mick-jagger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}