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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More on Melanie and Akkerman


So the album is out and can be heard. (Several tracks are on YouTube). It is a nice album but very much a Melanie album. One can hear little Akkerman bits perhaps but it is a selfless bit of support for the big star from America in the main. On the second track she introduces Jan and Raul Rekow, the conga player from Santana and there is a brief instrumental track featuring a bit of Classical Gas and Gate to Europe. Neither Melanie nor Raul are with us any more.

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