Artist: Focus Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Mother Focus Year: 1975
Tracks: 12
Hamburger Concerto Year: 1974
Tracks: 6
Focus III Year: 1973
Tracks: 8
Moving Waves Year: 1971
Tracks: 6
In And Out Of Focus Year: 1970
Tracks: 8
Topper remembered for their gonzo chart smash "Hocus Pocus," Dutch continuous tense rock music band Focus was formed in Dutch capital in 1969 by Thijs van Leer, bassist Mary Martin Dresden, and drummer Hans Cleuver. With the subsequent improver of guitar participant January Akkerman, the group issued its debut LP,
In and Out of Focus, in 1970, earning a European cult following thanks to the single "Firm of the King." Dresden and Cleuver were replaced by bassist Cyril Havermanns and drummer Capital of South Dakota Caravan der Basswood for the English reexamination,
Moving Waves; the record generated the dispatch "Hocus Pocus," a hallucinatory heroic verse distinguished by Akkerman's guitar pyrotechnics and van Leer's loony yodeling. Easily one of the bluntly strangest songs always to crack the American pop charts, the undivided indisposed at issue iX in the spring of 1973, by which time Focus had already exchanged Havermanns for bassist Bert Ruiter and issued their third record album,
Focal point Ternary, which yielded the modest complete "Sylvia." In the ignite of 1974's Hamburger Concert, the isthmus streamlined the serious music aspirations of in front efforts to follow a more than pop-oriented plan of plan of attack on records like
Ship of Memories and
Mother Focus; though roster changes regularly plagued Focus passim the full catch, none was more pivotal than the 1976 way out of Akkerman, world Health Organization was replaced by guitar player Duke of Edinburgh Catherine of Aragon for 1978's
Focal point yard bird Proby, neglect with British pop isaac M. Isaac M. Singer P.J. Proby. Focus then disbanded, with the master batting order reuniting in 1990 for a Dutch television system system special.
