After a lifetime of firsts, even for the Rolling Stones, it was a big one – performing a free concert to thousands in Cuba.

In March this year, the Stones became the first band ever to play a free outdoor show in Havana, and hundreds of thousands of Cuban fans roared their approval.

They were also joined on stage by Cuban choir Entrevoces for the encore of You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

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The historic concert was captured in director Paul Dugdale’s Havana Moon — the Rolling Stones Live In Cuba. It will be screened for one night only, at selected cinemas worldwide, including only one venue in Kent – Bluewater’s Showcase Cinema – on Friday, September, 23 at 7.30pm.

Appropriately enough it’s the closest cinema to Dartford railway station, the scene of Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’ first proper meeting, an astonishing 55 years ago next month.

Here's what Mick had to sat about the film and the historic visit to Cuba...

You had some fun with the Havana Moon title, a nice nod to an old Chuck Berry song...

Yeah, I thought it was a kind of fun little reference. When we were looking for a title, that just popped into my head, although it’s a long time since I’ve heard that song. It’s really moody, and I thought it would work really well for a title. Everyone seemed to like it.

Presumably you never thought about playing in Cuba because it was never a possibility before?

I don’t think we ever thought of playing there until a couple of years ago, when it started to be mentioned by people, because the American restrictions were easing, bit by bit. We probably could have played there ages ago, but it would have been quite difficult. A lot of my friends, going back three, four, five years, were saying “Why don’t you do a concert there?”

Had you been to Cuba?

Yeah, I always wanted to go. I have a house in the Caribbean and I kept thinking, I’ve got to go before it gets done, touristically. So I went last October/November with some friends. We went to Havana, we didn’t go anywhere else. It was very quiet, off season, really lovely, and I went to see a lot of music clubs and got the feel of the place. There were no tourists around, so it was kind of an “only Cubans” thing. I got the feel of how it would be if we played there – I was kind of scoping it out.

Did any fan mail for the band ever get through from Cuba in the past?

No, I don’t remember any. It’s very close to America, so the radio overlaps and there’s a lot of exchange of music. People all knew about the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and all that sort of thing, it wasn’t so cut off. I mean, it was cut off, yes, and it was difficult to get things, but so was Poland. People got things if they were that interested. We went to Poland in 1966, that was a weird one. That was a much more repressed state than Cuba. But if you want to talk about the serious part, that was an amazing month in Cuba. You had the Pope, Obama, Major Lazer and then the Stones, all going there. But you’d have to ask Cuban people — I don’t know whether they’re feeling anything after that or not. It’s not a free place, you’re still not allowed to say what you would like, and you’re still not allowed to assemble, and you’re not allowed much internet access.

Did the crowd behave differently from your audiences in other countries?

They were super-enthusiastic, and dancing, but they seemed to know the songs, and they behaved just like a Latin American audience at some of the other concerts, in a lot of ways. It didn’t feel like you were in another world. There was a lot of waving of smartphones.

Did you get a chance to explore the city before or after the concert?

There was no time. You arrive one day, you go and eat and do the gig and the next day you’re gone. There was a party at the British Embassy. But you’re trying to concentrate on doing the show. I had a lot of fun with it, because I’d been there for a couple of weeks, before, and it was fresh in my mind, and I met people that I‘d met.

You spoke quite a lot of Spanish during the show. Do you speak the language?

Not really but if I prep it, I can get by. I’d just been doing Spanish for almost the whole tour, so I was kind of OK. I think you’ve got to make the effort to talk to people in their own language. Even if you make a mess of it, it doesn’t matter. I think people appreciate you trying. The thing about Spanish is that it’s different in each country. Someone said “You can’t pronounce it like that, you’re speaking like a Chilean.” I was like, “What’s wrong with that?!”

It must be nice to have a permanent record of this particular show...

I think so. It was a really special night for Cubans, and some of the older people said they never thought it would ever happen. The younger people don’t think quite like that, but they just want to have a good time I hope other people will follow and overcome the difficulties, because the Cuban people will love it. They had a special night and it was a wonderful thing for us as well.

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