HOW YA GONNA KEEP EM DOWN ON THE FARM, ONCE THEY'VE SEEN "I'M FREE"?:

"Finally, the times are changing," proclaimed Mick Jagger to a vast, euphoric crowd in Havana on Friday night, as the Rolling Stones completed their world tour with a concert that may well prove a pivotal moment for a generation of Cubans.

Hundreds of thousands thronged to the Ciudad Deportiva stadium to see the British rockers, who follow hard on the heels of a visit by Barack Obama, in a week that few on this island are ever likely to forget.

Amid growing hopes of reform and further opening, the Stones frontman emphasised how far the country has already come in cultural opening from the 1960s, when their songs were considered ideologically divergent.

"We know that years ago, it was difficult to listen to our music in Cuba, but now here we are in your beautiful land," Jagger said in Spanish. "I think that, finally, the times are changing. That's true, no?" The crowd roared their agreement.

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