Looking at the music of Dutch rock band Focus, started in the late sixties by Thijs van Leer (b /31/03/48) with Jan Akkerman (b 24/12/46). Van Leer still performs and records under the name today (official site here). Akkerman's site here.
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Focus Lyricists 02
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(sody).
Focus is the best of all bands They are based in the Netherlands Their mainstay is called Thijs van Leer They play their music far and near They play mostly instrumental Sometimes rowdy, sometimes gentle.
A former milking parlour, it closed as a studio 1972
Olympic Studios
Built as a public hall 1906, it became a studio in the sixties and has recently closed down.
Chipping Norton
Grade II listed, the former school was opened as a studio in the market town shown 1972 by Richard and Mike Vernon, closing 1999 and now used as housing
Hilversum
Hilversum, the Netherlands, is home to several studios including the one owned by EMI and Wisseloord Studios above
Fieldwork Studio Schoten
Fieldwork is in Belgium
Studio Spitsbergen
Opened in 1979, Studio Spitsbergen is based near Zuidbroek in Northern Holland
Welsh pastor [born 59] at Childs Hill Baptist, London [83ff] husband to Eleri [88ff]; father to 5 sons [b 89-01]; 3 (soon 4) daughters-in-law [09ff]; 8 grandchildren [14ff] author: several books, many blogs.
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