Cuba Stone
Javier Sinay, Jeremías Gamboa, Joselo Rangel

NON FICTION | 2016 | 224 pages

In March of 2016, in the midst of their “América Latina Olé Tour," the British band The Rolling Stones played in Cuba for the first time, in a free concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana complex. One Good Friday, right after United States president Barack Obama’s visit—the first leader from the country to step on Cuban ground in the last eighty-eight years—The Stones played before a massive crowd whose actual size is still disputed: was it 500,000 people, 1,200,000? At this concert were fans that had arrived from other countries who didn’t want to miss what promised to be the band’s most exciting performance, actors, journalists, and, of course, Cubans, most of whom had never heard Rolling Stones songs due to the terms set by the Castro regime. Javier Sinay, a journalist from Argentina; Joselo, a writer and guitarist from the Mexican band Café Tacvba; and Jeremías Gamboa, a Peruvian writer and journalist, traveled to Cuba to witness this odd experiment, this clash between the most well-known band in the world and a town that had just started to wake up to their music in recent years. This book contains the stories that these three men wrote about this concert that became a historic event.

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