When the Rolling Stones make history on Good Friday by playing a free concert in Havana, I hope Mick and Keith & the gang take a stroll from their hotel to a little park in the leafy diplomatic neighborhood of Vedado, a handful of streets uphill from the famous Malecón. There they will find an unwitting monument to the ultimate futility of censorship: a statue of their old mate John Lennon, sitting on a park bench, in a square that was re-christened “Parque Lennon” in December 2000 by El Jefe himself.
“What makes him great in my eyes is his thinking, his ideas,” Fidel Castro said, obscenely, at the unveiling ceremony. “I share his dreams completely. I too am a dreamer who has seen his dreams turn into reality.”
#music #cuba #rock #rollingstones #FidelCastro #JohnLennon #ParqueLennon #LennonPark http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/24/how-rock-music-mostly-defeated-castros-c The Rolling Stones prepare their historic concert in a country that once banned the Beatles, and still harasses artistic free expression
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