Archive number: 98 Title: Rock and Rio Main Album: Focus 8 Track number: 1 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Peptide Studio, Vure...

Archive number: 97 Title: Neurotika Main Album: Focus 8 Track number: 8 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Peptide Studio, Vuren L...

The first Focus album I ever heard was their second. Moving Waves, as it was called in the UK, appeared towards the end of 1971. It was init...

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The last time Akkerman and Van Leer performed together was in 1993. In 1999 and since 2000 Van Leer has revived the band under the name of F...

In February 1976 Jan Akkerman finally left the band. A 33 date tour of the UK and Ireland had already been agreed and could not be cancelled...

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...