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Rolling Stones unleash rock and roll on massive Cuban crowd
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Keith Richards plays his guitar as the Rolling Stones perform in Havana, Cuba, Friday March 25, forces behind Cuba’s dec-
Associated Press 2016. At left Charlie Watts and at right Mick Jagger. The Stones are performing in a free concert in laration of detente with
HAVANA (AP) — The Roll- Havana Friday, becoming the most famous act to play Cuba since its 1959 revolution. the United States, greeted
ing Stones unleashed two friends and relatives after
hours of shrieking, thunder- Associated Press the show.
ing rock and roll on an ec- Far from the Cuban and in-
static crowd of hundreds 3-story-tall high-definition good to see you guys!” communist government ternational elites, ordinary
of thousands of Cubans television screens and The Stones romped through frowned on U.S. and British Cubans said they felt shot
and foreign visitors Friday thumping towers of speak- 18 of their classics, pick- bands. through with energy, re-
night, capping one of the ers. ing up force as the crowd Fans had to hide their Bea- connected with the world.
most momentous weeks in From Sunday evening to in the open-air Ciudad tles and Stones albums in “After today I can die,”
modern Cuban history with late Friday night, it felt as Deportiva, or Sports City, covers borrowed from al- said 62-year-old night
a massive celebration of if the full force of the 21st jumped and chanted “Roll- bums of appropriately rev- watchman Joaquin Ortiz.
music that was once for- century had landed with ings! Rollings!” olutionary Cuban groups. “This is like my last wish, see-
bidden here. bone-rattling impact on an The Rolling Stones were But times have changed. ing the Rolling Stones.”
The week opened with the island that still feels mostly the biggest act to play Former supermodel Naomi Rivers of spectators flowed
arrival of President Barack cut off from the modern Cuba since its 1959 revolu- Campbell, north and south from the
Obama in Air Force One, world. tion brought a communist actor Richard Gere and concert site after the show,
accompanied by more “Havana, Cuba, and the government to power and singer Jimmy Buffet partied watched over by hun-
than 1,000 employees of a Rolling Stones!” Jagger isolated the island from the in the VIP section of the dreds, perhaps thousands,
government that waged cried. “This is amazing! It’s United States and its allies. concert. Castro’s son Ale- of security officials.
a cold war against Cuba really good to be here! It’s At its heyday, Cuba’s jandro, one of the driving Few were willing to com-
for more than 50 years. This ment on the connections
time, between the concert and
U.S. forces were armed Obama’s visit earlier in the
with briefing books and week, but many said the
press invitations, here to concert had implications
seal the president’s 2014 beyond simple entertain-
opening to Cuba with a ment.
string of expertly crafted “The Rolling Stones being in
public events that saw Cuba at this time is like sev-
Obama call for democ- eral steps up the ladder,”
racy live on state televi- said Jennifer Corchado, a
sion, then attend a Major 23-year-old biologist.
League Baseball exhibition “It’s like three steps up the
game with Cuban Presi- staircase toward global
dent Raul Castro. culture, toward the rest of
The week ended with Mick the world.”
Jagger, Keith Richards, Among the spectators was
Ronnie Wood and Charlie a large contingent of for-
Watts firing “Jumpin’ Jack eign tourists, for whom see-
Flash” ‘’Sympathy for the ing Cuba was as novel as
Devil” and “Satisfaction” seeing the Rolling Stones is
into a jubilant crowd from for Cubans.q
Janice Dickinson vows to fight back against breast cancer
In this June 29, 2015 file photo, Janice Dickinson arrives at the ANTHONY McCARTNEY mogram and a biopsy. She ... and I’m Perfect,” was
Los Angeles premiere of “Lord of the Freaks.” AP Entertainment Writer will undergo surgery and a cast member of VH1’s
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Model radiation therapy. “The Surreal Life” and UPN’s
Associated Press and TV host Janice Dickin- “Don’t feel sorry for me, this “America’s Next Top Mod-
son has revealed that she’s is not a pity party, I’m Jan- el.”
got breast cancer and ice Dickinson and I’m gon- Dickinson has sued Bill Cos-
vows to battle the disease. na stick around for a long, by for defamation and the
“Janice is going to fight long time, you ain’t getting comedian’s lawyers will ar-
and she will not let this di- rid of me yet,” she told the gue for the case’s dismissal
agnosis define her. website. during a hearing Tuesday in
She wants to encourage “It’s still quite shocking. You Los Angeles.
all women to have regu- know, I’ve had plastic sur- Dickinson has attended re-
lar checkups, as that is gery and I’ve had breast cent hearings in the case,
how her cancer was dis- implants and I’ve always which focuses on deni-
covered,” said Dickinson’s been very vocal of what als by Cosby’s camp of
attorney, Lisa Bloom, in a I’ve done, because I tell her claims the comedian
statement Monday. the truth about everything. drugged and raped her in
Dickinson told DailyMail. As I am right now,” the Lake Tahoe, California, in
com that a “pea-size” 61-year-old said. 1982.
lump was found on her Dickinson, author of “No “Janice and I will be there
right breast during a doctor Lifeguard on Duty: The Ac- tomorrow morning to fight
visit on March 8. Three days cidental Life of the World’s for her right to have her day
after the lump was discov- First Supermodel” and “Ev- in court against Bill Cosby,”
ered, Janice had a mam- erything About Me Is Fake Bloom said.q
