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Raising the Rufus in Stoke...

Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 8 March 1975

RUFUS KICKED off their first British tour last weekend high on the news that they'd just been given a Grammy award for their single, 'Tell Me Something Good'. The group played a forceful 75-minute set at the Heavy Steam Machine, a rambling labyrinth of bars and dance floors, in the seemingly unlikely location of Stoke-on-Trent.

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