The Beatles take Havana.

PositionCuba - Brief article

In the 1960s, a wildly popular British boy band was greeted by mobs of adoring teens the world over--but not in Cuba. Fidel Castro and other revolutionary leaders weren't sure what to make of the Beatles' long hair and bell-bottom jeans. And at a time when relations between the U.S. and Cuba had hit bottom after the Cuban Missile Crisis, most things in English were perceived as American and therefore treasonous. Now, more than 50 years later, Cubans are finally being allowed to embrace the Fab Four. A club called...

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