Mick Jagger Makes “Private” Visit to Cuba

[flamingdem]

HAVANA TIMES – Preparing for a concert in Cuba? Mick Jagger, the leader of the famous British band The Rolling Stones, is visiting the Caribbean island, reports dpa news on Monday.

Jagger, 72, was seen walking through the historic city center of Old Havana, the paper. The legendary vocalist also visited a private club, the Shargi La bar & restaurant . The local posted this photo of several employees posing next to Jagger on its Facebook page.

In its online edition, Granma newspaper said the visit to the island is “private” but also speculated that it may have to do with the concert the Stones want to hold in Cuba as part of their upcoming Latin American tour.

The band’s guitarist Keith Richards said some weeks ago that the group wants to perform for the first time in Cuba as part of its upcoming tour of South America.

According to reports from the Spanish newspaper “El Mundo”, the rock veterans are negotiating with the Cuban authorities to hold their concert in March at the Latin American Stadium in Havana.

http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=114253

[Judi Lynn]

1. Hope a lot of photos of that concert will make it to the U.S.

I'm not sure the corporate media here will acknowledge this trip to Cuba, but it would be great to see the photos.

You know they will be wild to see them.

Great news, flamingdem.

[Judi Lynn]

2. A ha ha ha yuck. Yoani Sanchez has tried to bend this Jagger appearance in Cuba for a political spew

for her right-wing aspirations. She doesn't realize that the culture the Stones shunned were EXACTLY the people Yoanni Sanchez tries to please, and that they have NOTHING in common with people like her, other than living upon the same planet.

You may find this wildly amusing, as in "nice try, half-wit" or simply sickening!

Cuba and Mick Jagger's Kiss

Posted: 10/05/2015 2:41 pm EDT Updated: 10/05/2015 3:59 pm EDT

We never got to hear Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston on our national stages. Freddie Mercury died without touching down in Havana, and when The Beatles broke up, we were a country where English music was considered ideological diversionism. We followed the career of Elvis Presley from a distance and the charismatic Amy Winehouse slammed the door on life without stepping foot on this island. However, now we are about to regain part of what was lost: Mick Jagger's emblematic mouth is here, the eternal youth of The Rolling Stones has arrived.

While the analysts debate, looking for signs of change in the Cuban political or diplomatic scene, transformations are capricious and take another direction. This country is not going to change itself into a new nation because John Kerry visited, nor because of the third visit by a pope in less than two decades. But Cuba is changing when people like this British rocker, icon of good music and of the greatest possible irreverence, touch down in Havana.

The vocalist, 72, has made his way through the streets of Havana leaving a trail of incredulity and beating hearts. It is not, admittedly, the excitement provoked by Beyoncé or Rihanna with their escapades in this theme park of the past, but Jagger's visit has more profound connotations. For several generations of Cubans he represents the forbidden, an attitude toward life that was denied us by an obsessive police control.

For a political system that tried to form the "New Man," with a Spartan spirit, "correct" and obedient, this skinny guy with his turbulent life signified the anti-model, what we must not imitate. However, the laboratory man hawked by the pedagogical manuals didn't work out... and Mick Jagger won the battle against the prototype of the militant boy, hair cut short and willing to denounce his own family.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yoani-sanchez/cuba-and-mick-jaggers-kis_b_8246666.html

(As you can recall, when right-wing politicians try to glom onto big songs by great bands for their campaigns, great band musicians CAN'T STAND right-wingers, unless you include Lawrence Welk.)

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[flamingdem]

3. What a riot! Yoani is so jealous that the attention is totally off of her!

Call the whamulaence Yoani's got it bad, oh thanks so much for the delicious enjoyment of her absurdity and fading relevance.

Mick would hate Yoani's friends, you are so right! She is the person who will get the most nostalgic for the past in Cuba because that's what she writes about, all negative all the time. Really, this article is surprising because it shows she's either out of material or really clueless!

Funny thing to add - The Rolling Stones are not that popular yet in Cuba. The Beatles are loved but the Stones haven't penetrated the Cuban singing heart that much. So Mick is making a good business decision too! And in a funny way still competing with the Beatles.