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Rachid Taha: Raucous rocking in the casbah

Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2005

SIGHTINGS OF BRIAN Eno playing music in public in Britain have been rare enough these past 30 years, and as for jigging excitedly around the stage, well, most of us thought he'd left that behind with the feather boa in Roxy Music. But the high point of Sunday evening's rousing Stop the War benefit at the Astoria did indeed find pop's most cerebral, studio-centric boffin performing what could only be described as a dance.

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