By 1975 things in the Focus camp were beginning to unravel but they continued to play together. The final Akkerman era album, Mother Focus ,...

The year 1974 was the year of the Hamburger Concerto album and concerts feature that material alongside the older numbers. In April a TV sh...

A good number of recordings have surfaced from the very busy period that the second half of 1973 was, some of them quite interesting. Foc...

In 1973 Focus began to break in America. A broadcast recording exists from that year. It was recorded in the Philharmonic Hall in New York...

An early recording for the BBC exists from the end of 1972 (November or December 12) or the beginning of 1973 (some time in January). It is ...

As we come into 1972 and the beginnings of Focus's international fame there are two more recordings about from Holland plus, significant...

The next group of Focus extant recordings are from 1971, the year that the second album was released. Again they are from Holland. There are...

Focus must have played many hundreds of concerts as Focus over the years. In most cases, certainly in the early years, recordings of these p...

Archive number: 96 Title: Hocus Pocus (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 9 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Ven...

Archive number: 95 Title: Focus 7 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 8 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: ...

Archive number: 94 [DVD only] Title: Harem Scarem (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 10 (DVD). Not on CD. Genre: Progres...

Archive number: 93 Title: Cathedrale de Strasbourg (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America  Track number: 7 Genre: Progressive Rock Vocal V...

Archive number: 92 Title: Focus 5 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America  Track number: 6 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patr...

Archive number: 91 Title: Sylvia (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 5 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patrio...

Archive number: 90 [DVD only] Title: Brother (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America DVD Track number: 6 (DVD) not on CD Genr e: Jazz Rock ...

Notes: Archive number: 89 Title: Focus 3 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 10 of 10 (CD) 5 (DVD) Genre: Progressive Roc...

Archive number: 88 Title: Eruption (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 4 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patr...

Archive number: 87 Title: Focus 2 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 3 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Venue: Patriots The...

Archive number: 86 Title: House of the King (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 2 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Ve...

Archive number: 85 Title: Focus 1 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 1 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patri...

There are a small number of almost forgotten tracks that are not exactly by Focus but that technically do feature the band. The oldest ...

Today's official website boasts of Focus as De ultieme progressieve rockgroep . But are they really a prog rock band? Being interviewed ...

Most British audiences sat listening to Focus very soberly and the humour was perhaps overlooked. My tendency was certainly to be a little o...

One thing that attracted me to Focus’s music as a teenager in the 1970s was its seriousness. Raised on pop music I was tiring of its superfi...

Having observed the eastern element in the music of Jan Akkerman one looks for something similar in Thijs van Leer's music. It is not r...

In an interview in Odessa, Ukraine, in 2005 Jan Akkerman said “I think I have Russian roots. My aunt told me that one of my great-grandmothe...

Before joining Focus Jan Akkerman had produced a solo album - the 1969 instrumental album Guitar for sale. While still with Focus he produc...

While still with the original Focus, Thijs van Leer produced one solo album - the very successful light classical orchestral album Introspe...

The fade is used by Focus quite sparingly, except on Mother Focus , where nearly half the tracks fade. It is usually adopted where a live pi...

??? Besides the Answer element in the long track Eruption (Moving Waves) and Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (Focus 3) Focus have at...