According to our records, Focus have by now released 200 official recordings. That number is slightly misleading in that three tracks have been released twice - Clair-Obscur, Winnie and Victoria.
So the exact number is 197.
There are
44 live tracks
We include four live albums (Rainbow, BBC, America and Rio), leaving 153 studio tracks.
So 153 studio tracks.
20 or so re-recorded tracks
Sometimes tracks have been re-recorded, the obvious examples being the 9 tracks on Golden Oldies and 11 of the 12 tracks on Completely Focussed leaving 133.
So about 133 fairly unique studio tracks.
First period - 49
There are 49 tracks from the first period, the Akkerman period - In and out (7) House of the King (1) Moving Waves (5) Focus 3 (9) Hamburger Concerto (6) and Mother Focus (12) plus the "Left overs album" Ship of Memories which featured 9 tracks.
That leaves 84.
Second period - 16
There are 16 tracks in what we might call the middle period, namely the albums Focus con Proby (9) and the album that Akkerman and van Leer did together in 1985 Focus.
That leaves 68.
Third period - 68
Those 68 are from the most recent period and include 11 on Focus 8, 5 on an obscure album dubbed 8.5/Old skin, 13 on Focus 9, 10 on Focus X, 11 on Focus 11, the track Focus 12 and 17 unique to the album Focus Family album.