Now that would be an excited audience! Of course, the tickets would have to be gratis...

The arena would be full of cigar smoke.

I wonder if Raul would limit the setlist like China does. I'm guessing no...just a great rock show.

As long as they put Money, Brand New Car, Luxury, Black Limousine, and Everything Is Turning To Gold in the setlist, I'm in.

Speaking of Brand New Car, I wonder if auto parts are available there?

Why would the Castro's care about the set list? Cuba is moving slowly into modern times - I don't know if that is good or bad for them - but I am sure Honky Tonk Women will be a big hit in Cuba. They do know how to dance and sing. They could play to a million, charge a peso or so for the show, and it would swing a lot. The missing link in the Stones tour list. They have done virtually everything except for Cuba, well still missing bits in Asia and Africa, but close to a full house now.

PS. By the way - DO NOT USE THIS THREAD FOR POLITICAL STATEMENTS. Everybody should know the IORR posting policy by now. No politics please.

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It would indeed by cool, BV.
Plus it's a great place to visit.

BV they hadnt dome Iceland havent they? think about the posters we are missing!

Havana sounds be awesome....

Do they ever have big time international acts play there?

Wouldn't the (very silly and hypocritical) Helms-Burton Act prevent the Stones to work again in the US if they played in Cuba?

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All the rum - they're going to drink it!!!

I know they have not played Iceland, but you know, to be honest, the population of Iceland is 330,000 i.e. 0,3 million people while the population of Cuba is 11 million people i.e. Cuba is 33 times bigger. People in Icenand can afford to travel to Norway, UK or other places, but people in Cuba can't travel that esasily. So the Stones should come there if they do a South America and Caribean areas tour...

Bjornulf

indian girl?

BTW, Fidel Castro and Mick Jagger have something in common. Fidel named his first revolutionary group "26th of July Movement". Mick's birthday...

I have wondered about this for over 10 years now. Why not play Cuba unless it is some effort to avoid controversy. Sure, they wouldn't make any money, but it's not always about that (like club gigs). BV's got it, 1M or more audience could be had with incredible energy. Make it a DVD to work out the costs if need be (done that before...Copa).

Hit Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Jamaica & Haiti. I'd buy that poster.

"They're fighting for Mr. Castro in the streets of Angola." The Stones aren't that stupid.

I think it would be a great gesture for the people of Cuba, who are always forgotten in these political squabbles. Show some support for the real Salt of the Earth.

Lots more could be said, but because of the Stones' precedent of not playing South Africa I'll just relate these numbers (from the University of Miami website): 1) Cuba has a 60% black population; 2) 80% of Cuba's political prisoners are black; 3) .08% of the members of Cuba's ruling government are black. Mick reads a lot, has a Nicaraguan connection, and Keith surely hears stories in Jamaica.

They could do a cover of Havana Moon.

Love the stones to play cuba, had good times in cuba.

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Lots more could be said, but because of the Stones' precedent of not playing South Africa I'll just relate these numbers (from the University of Miami website): 1) Cuba has a 60% black population; 2) 80% of Cuba's political prisoners are black; 3) .08% of the members of Cuba's ruling government are black. Mick reads a lot, has a Nicaraguan connection, and Keith surely hears stories in Jamaica.

They have a 0% illiteracy rate and is the only country on Earth without institutional racism per Human Rights Watch. Lot's more could be said...

Would be a magical show for sure. I remember the Manic Street Preachers were one of (if the not THE) first international bands to play in Cuba. The documentary is fascinating, as is their encounter with Castro. Anyway, i'm going to Cuba next year, so it would be great if the Stones could time it just right

Other places the Stones have never played include the Korean Peninsula, Thailand (doubt that's going to happen soon after this weeks news), Indonesia (although Mick has played solo) and Malaysia. Huge countries with big Stones fansbases waiting patiently for the next Asia tour in ten years time

I think if the Stones did play there, the Cubans would be havana good time!

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Havana sounds be awesome....

Do they ever have big time international acts play there?

Rare, but not without precedent. Although this concert was free.

They should stay at the Hotel Ambos Mundos where Hemmingway lived. Very cool hotel.

I wonder if Cubans had any access to Stones music in the 60-ies and 70-ies, or a relevant opportunity to learn about the legacy in later years (like in eastern Europe after the iron curtain came down).
If people don't know the big hits, could a stadium be filled?

In 2012 my wife and I travelled about Cuba for the honeymoon and I can't recall hearing much music from outside the island. There was a band playing in our resort where we stayed for the last week, they did international rock anthems (and very well so). But you never really know how these things come into being - they might have been educated for touristic purposes rather than that they grew up with rock and roll (except from 50's cars ).

Even now Cubans have very little access to overseas products, the internet and modern media equipment.

The only promotor capable of organising it financially would be the government. But I agree, that would be a major gesture!

I'd go probably, if the timing is right

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I think if the Stones did play there, the Cubans would be havana good time!

if they play there they should definitely include Brown Cigar..

in the setlist..

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um, there is this murderous dictator there who has taken away all people's rights and locked up people for being homosexual, so, I, um, say NO!