20080313

Track by track 40 Harem Scarem

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Archive number: 40 Title: Harem Scarem Main Album: Hamburger Concerto. Also a single with Early Birth 1974. Track number: 2 Genre: Jazz ...
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20080308

Track by track 39 Delitae Musicae

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Archive number: 39 Title: Delitae Musicae Main Album: Hamburger Concerto Track number: 1 Genre: Elizabethan Instrumental Studio: Olympic Stu...
20080306

Other Composers

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Apart from those who were members of the group at the time Focus have looked occasionally to other writers for material. These have usually...

Focus Lyricists 02

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Here are another five. Also note that Focus fan Gordon Taylor is the man who put the Focus titles together for the track European Rap(sod...

Focus Lyricists 01

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Focus vocal tracks are rare but there are some. Lyrics for these tracks have never come from Akkerman or van Leer, the main composers. The ...
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Track by track 38 Ship of Memories

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Archive number: 38 Title: Ship of Memories Main Album: Ship of Memories Track number: 9 Genre: Instrumental Studio: Chipping Norton Recordin...

Track by track 37 Focus 5

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Archive number: 37 Title: Focus 5 Main Album: Ship of Memories. Also a single in 1975 b/w P's March. Track number: 3 Genre: Jazz Roc...

Track by track 36 Out of Vesuvius

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Archive number: 36 Title: Out of Vesuvius Main Album: Ship of Memories Track number: 4 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Chipping...
20080305

Track by track 35 P's March

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Archive number: 35 Title: P's March Main Album: Ship of Memories. Also a single in 1976 b/w Focus 5. Track number: 1 Genre: Progressive ...

Track by track 34 Can't believe my eyes

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Archive number: 34 Title: Can't believe my eyes Main Album: Ship of Memories Track number: 2 Genre: Rock Instrumental Studio: Chipping N...
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...