The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon

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Movie
Original title The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Paul Dugdale
production Simon Fisher
music The Rolling Stones
cut Simon Bryant, Tom Watson

Havana Moon is a Rolling Stones concert film, recorded on March 25, 2016 in Havana , the capital of Cuba . The film documents the band's free open-air concert in the “Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana” sports complex with an estimated 500,000 visitors. It was the first rock concert in Cuba in front of such a large audience. The film was released on November 11, 2016 in various formats.

prehistory

The lawyer Gregory Elias suggested to Joyce Smyth, the manager of the Rolling Stones, in a telephone conversation on November 13, 2015, to organize a free concert for the band in Cuba, the costs of which would be paid by his charity "Fundashon Bon Intenshon". To speculations about political motivation, Elias replied that he only wanted to do something good for the Cuban people and that he had no business connections in Cuba.

The concert was planned during the Rolling Stones' 2016 América Latina Olé Tour . When it became known that the then President of the United States , Barack Obama , would be the first US President in 88 years to visit Cuba, the concert was postponed from the originally scheduled date of March 20 to March 25, 2016. Shortly before the new date, Pope Francis tried - unsuccessfully - to postpone the concert again, as March 25, 2016 was Good Friday .

occupation

At the time of the concert, the remaining four members of the Rolling Stones had already been in the music business for over five decades and had therefore already passed the usual retirement age: Mick Jagger (vocals) and Keith Richards (guitar) were 72 years old, Charlie Watts (drums) even 74 and Ron Wood (guitar) at least 68 .

Other musicians included: Darryl Jones (bass, vocals), Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Karl Denson (saxophone), Tim Ries (saxophone, keyboards), as well as Bernard Fowler and Sasha Allen as additional singers. The Coro Entrevoces was on stage as a background choir.

Track list

All songs are by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , except for Jumpin 'Jack Flash , written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman .

  1. Jumpin 'Jack Flash
  2. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
  3. Tumbling Dice
  4. Out of control
  5. All down the line
  6. Angie
  7. Paint It Black
  8. Honky Tonk Women
  9. You Got the Silver - vocals: Keith Richards
  10. Before They Make Me Run - vocals: Keith Richards
  11. Midnight Rambler
  12. Miss you
  13. Gimme Shelter - Duet Mick Jagger with Sasha Allen
  14. Start Me Up
  15. Sympathy for the Devil
  16. Brown sugar
  17. You Can't Always Get What You Want - with choir
  18. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

reception

The live album made it to number four in the German album charts and became the band's 37th Top 10 success . The album stayed in the top 10 for a total of two weeks and in the top 100 for 26 weeks. The album version also entered the charts in Switzerland, the album made it to the Swiss charts for a total of ten weeks and reached its highest rating at position 27.

The video album made it to the top of the music DVD charts in Austria, Switzerland and the United States. At number three, it also achieved a top 10 hit on the UK music DVD charts. In Germany, the sales from live and video albums are added together, so the album only placed in the album Top 100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Meet the corporate lawyer who paid $ 7million for the Rolling Stones to play in Cuba - and they didn't even play his favorite song . Daily Mail , March 30, 2016 (English)
  3. ^ Rolling Stones' Cuba Concert Delayed Over Barack Obama's Arrival . Billboard (magazine) , March 21, 2016 (English)
  4. ^ Pope tries to stop Rolling Stones from playing in Cuba . Daily Mirror , March 25, 2016
  5. ↑ The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon on IMDb (English)
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US (search required)
  7. ↑ The Rolling Stones on the US music video charts

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