The Stones in Havana: Who paid for that “free” concert?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Just read it for the first time. I think the author has researched the stuffing out of it.

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She may so well be right.

I would imagine it surely was NOT a free concert, however, in the sense that no one paid the Stones to do it. As Sabina mentioned, it takes a ton of money to pay them just to leave the house.

I think the points she raises are most definitely worth pondering.

I do remember over the years, as a Cuba watcher, reading of various bands doing concerts in Cuba, some of them English. She does point out that it can be said that this is the first OUTDOOR concert in Cuba by a internationally known English band.

What's your view? Have you considered how and why the concert came into being when it did?

It's not that they couldn't have come before now. As mentioned already, English bands have played there years ago. Something to think about.