Rolling Stones give historic free concert in Cuba

[Tom Joad]

Who cares about Obama?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuba-gear...142103020.html

HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of jubilant Cubans swarmed the site of the Rolling Stones' free concert in Havana Friday, calling it a historic moment for a country that once forced rock fans to listen to their favorite music behind closed doors.

Coming two days after Barack Obama finished the first trip to Cuba by a U.S. president in nearly 90 years, the evening concert cemented the communist-run nation's opening to the world. Organizers expect at least a half million spectators to see the biggest act to play in Cuba since its 1959 revolution.

"After today I can die," said night watchman Joaquin Ortiz. The 62-year-old said he's been a huge rock fan since he was a teenager in the 1960s, when Cuba's communist government frowned on U.S. and British bands and he had to hide his Beatles and Stones albums in covers borrowed from albums of appropriately revolutionary Cuban groups. "This is like my last wish, seeing the Rolling Stones."

[finnbow]

I saw that earlier on the news. Good for Mick and the boys. Should be an awesome show.