It's only rock'n'roll, but in Cuba the Rolling Stones symbolise a lot more.
The band has arrived for their historic concert in the communist Caribbean island nation. No band this big has ever played here and for a long while the Stones' music was actually banned.
However, despite how foreign this soil might be for the rock icons, Mick Jagger says he is happy to break new ground.
"There haven't been any big shows here before, and it would have been surprising, say, 10 years ago for it to have happened. And anybody that has been here a long time knows that."
The Stones added Cuba as a surprise concert at the end of their current tour, a move previously unthinkable for decades.
In the '60s, American and British rock music was outlawed by the Cuban government, as it was seen as subversive representing the worst excesses of Western capitalism.
Now Havana is preparing for a concert by the 'Gimme Shelter' rockers with an expected audience of 500,000.
All of this is coming just three days after the momentous visit of US president Barack Obama. Cuba has waited a long time for a line-up like that.
ITV
