WATCH: Trailer for Rolling Stones Cuban concert film
The Stones' historic free gig has been turned into a film called 'Havana Moon'.
As Keith Richards said: "There’s the sun, the moon, the stars, and The Rolling Stones". On Good Friday, 25 March 2016, the unstoppable force of The Rolling Stones became the first rock band to play a massive free outdoor concert to hundreds of thousands in Havana, Cuba.
Now the film of that concert, named after a Chuck Berry song, is to be screened in cinemas around the world on 23rd September 2016, allowing fans to witness the momentous occasion for themselves.
Captured by award winning director Paul Dugdale, the concert's setlist features a greatest hits of the Stones including the likes of ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’, ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’, ‘Paint It Black’, ‘Honky Tonk Women’, ‘Start Me Up’, ‘Brown Sugar’ and "a few surprises" too.
Fidel Castro's regime saw rock music as "deviant", and as a consequence it has been suppressed or outright banned for much of the last fifty years. But as Keef himself says in the trailer "...if you ban something, you're making it a little more tasty!" Hardly surprising, then, that the concert attracted a crowd of an estimated 700,000 people.
Mick Jagger referenced the unique setting of the show, referring to his band-mates as "The Revolutionary Ronnie Wood…Charlie Che Watts….Compadre Keith Richards".
Watch the trailer for the film below.
Said Jagger: “The Cuba show was simply amazing. It was an incredible moment; a huge sea of people for as far as the eye could see. You could feel the buzz of the enthusiasm from the crowd and that was for me the stand out moment.”
Tickets for the global screening will go on sale at the beginning of August, available from stonesincuba.com.