20080209

Track by track 33[U] Britannia (Live)

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Archive number: 33[U] Title: Britannia Genre: Live Elizabethan Instrumental Venue: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, 232 Seven Sisters Road, N...

Track by track 32 Hocus Pocus Reprise

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Archive number: 32 Title: Hocus Pocus (reprise) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 7 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental V...

Track by track 31 Sylvia (Live)

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Archive number: 31 Title: Sylvia (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 6 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Ra...

Track by track 30[U] House of the King (Live)

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Archive number: 30[U] Title: House of the King (Live) Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, 2...
20080208

Track by track 29 Hocus Pocus (Live)

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Archive number: 29 Title: Hocus Pocus (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 5 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venu...
20080131

Track by track 28 Eruption (Live)

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Archive number: 28 Title: Eruption (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 4 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: ...

Track by track 27 Focus 2 (Live)

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Archive number: 27 Title: Focus 2 (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 3 Genre: Live Progressive Jazz Rock Instrumental Ven...
20080128

Track by track 26 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (Live)

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Archive number: 26  Title: Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 2 Genre: Live Progr...
20080126

Track by track 25 Focus 3 (Live)

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Archive number: 25 Title: Focus 3 (Live) Main Album: Focus at the Rainbow Track number: 1 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: R...
20080125

Focus Covers

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Focus have been relatively free of covers by other artists, partly perhaps because of the demanding nature of their music. Apart from tho...
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House of the King Versions

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The third great Focus track is House of the King. It too is available in several versions by the band or by Akkerman or van Leer and has bee...
20080124

Sylvia Versions

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Another great Focus song is Sylvia. Again not to be confused with other songs of the same title. About nine versions of Focus by the band or...
20080119

Hocus Pocus Versions

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Hocus Pocus in no doubt Focus's best known song (although people often know the song but not who did it). Various versions are av...
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20080117

Track by track 24 Hocus Pocus 2

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Archive number: 24 Title: Hocus Pocus 2 (US Single) Main Album: Ship of Memories (first released as a single in the US, it is also on ...
20080116

Track by track 23 Anonymus 2

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Archive number: 23 Title: Anonymus 2 Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 8 (CD version, 7 on the LP) Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Stud...
20080115

Track by track 22 Elspeth of Nottingham

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Archive number: 22 Title: Elspeth of Nottingham Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 7 (CD version, 8 on the LP) Genre: Elizabethan Instrumenta...
20080114

Track by track 21 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!

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Archive number: 21 Title: Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 6 Genre: Progressive Jazz Rock Instrumen...
20080104

Track by track 20 Focus 3

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Archive number: 20 Title: Focus 3 Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 5 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Studio: Olympic Studios 'B', 117...
20080103

Track by track 19 Carnival Fugue

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Archive number: 19 Title: Carnival Fugue Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 4 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Studio: Olympic Studios 'B...
20080102

Track by track 18 Love Remembered

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Archive number: 18 Title: Love Remembered Main Album: Focus 3 (also a single in 1972) Track number: 2 Genre: Classical/Progressive Rock Inst...
20071224

Track by track 17 Round goes the gossip

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Archive number: 17 Title: Round goes the gossip Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 1 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental/Vocal Studio: Olympic Stud...

Track by track 16 Sylvia

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Archive number: 16 Title: Sylvia Main Album: Focus 3 (also a single in 1972 and 1973) Track number: 3 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Studio: ...

Thijs van Leer: the vocal element

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When it comes to the vocal element in the music of Thijs van Leer then there is a lot more to say, particularly in the life of Focus. Not t...
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20071221

Jan Akkerman: the vocal element

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At first blush the subject looks thin. The man’s a guitarist not a singer and his output has been very much in the area of the instrumental...
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20071220

Thijs van Leer: the classical element

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van Leer on stage with Letty de Jong 1974 Van Leer grew up in a family where classical music was prominent. He himself studied first under ...

Jan Akkerman: the classical element 2

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Tabernakel (1973), Akkerman's third solo album, is again diverse but has several classical elements. On Javeh and Lammy, especially the...