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50 Years Anthology 1970-1976

a Compilation/Boxed-Set release
by
Focus

Release Year: 2020

Date Label Catalog # Comments
13 Nov 2020 Red Bullet Productions 9xCD+2xDVD

50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 is curated by Focus/Jan Akkerman archivist Wouter Bessels. Additionally, it includes 1973 live album At The Rainbow, the Ship of Memories compilation from 1976 (which features 11 bonus tracks), the complete BBC In Concert 1973 gig taken from the original stereo master tapes and a disc of unreleased live performances.

Two DVDs (PAL, region-free) contain over four hours of audiovisual material taken from the archives of various TV stations around the world and include the first official release of the 1973 ‘Focus At The Rainbow’ concert movie, carefully restored from the original 16 mm film.

The box set comes with an 80-page booklet with band history, liner notes and various memorabilia.

Added To Proggnosis Database on: 11/29/2020 12:00:00 AM
Entry Last Updated on: 11/29/2020 3:44:00 AM by: DBSilver

CD1 – FOCUS PLAYS FOCUS / IN AND OUT OF FOCUS Original release: 1970 

  1. Focus (instrumental) 9.46 
  2. Why Dream 3.56 
  3. Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3.56 
  4. Anonymus 7.01 
  5. Black Beauty 3.05 
  6. Sugar Island 3.02 
  7. Focus (vocal) 2.43
  8. House Of The King 2.23
  9. Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37.31

CD2 – FOCUS II / MOVING WAVES Original release: 1971 

  1. Hocus Pocus 6.41
  2. Le Clochard (Bread) 1.59
  3. Janis 3.06 
  4. Moving Waves 2.41
  5. Focus II 4.03
  6. Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla – Answer – The Bridge – Euridice – Dayglow – Endless Road – Answer – Orfeus – Euridice) 23.07
  7.  Hocus Pocus (single version) 3.27 
  8. Tommy (single version) 3.25
  9. Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14.11 

 

CD3 – FOCUS 3 Original release: 1972 

  1. Round Goes The Gossip… 5.16
  2. Love Remembered 2.48 
  3. Sylvia 3.32 
  4. Carnival Fugue 6.07 
  5. Focus III 6.05 
  6. Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14.03 
  7. Anonymus II (Part 1) 19.33
  8. . Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7.34
  9. Elspeth Of Nottingham 3.13
  10. Sylvia (single version) 3.32 
  11. Love Remembered (single version) 2.49
  12. . Hocus Pocus (US single version) 3.25

CD4 – AT THE RAINBOW Original release: 1973 

  1. Focus III 3.52
  2. Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11.26 
  3. Focus II 4.24 
  4. Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla) 8.40
  5. Hocus Pocus 8.27
  6. Sylvia 2.47
  7. Hocus Pocus – reprise 2.48
  8.  P’s March (original mix – single version) 3.27 
  9. Ship Of Memories (original mix) 4.40 
  10. P’s March (original mix – full version) 4.03

CD5 – HAMBURGER CONCERTO Original release: 1974

  1. Delitiæ Musicæ 1.13
  2. Harem Scarem 5.50
  3. La Cathédrale de Strasbourg 4.57
  4. Birth 7.45
  5. Hamburger Concerto (Starter – Rare – Medium I – Medium II – Well Done – One For The Road)
  6.  Early Birth 2.56
  7. Harem Scarem (single version) 3.08 
  8. Birth (alternate mix) 7.43
  9. Harem Scarem (alternate mix) 5.51

CD6 – MOTHER FOCUS Original release: 1975 

  1. Mother Focus 3.05
  2. I Need A Bathroom 3.04
  3. Bennie Helder 3.33
  4. Soft Vanilla 3.04
  5. Hard Vanilla 2.35
  6. Tropic Bird 2.45
  7. Focus IV 3.57
  8. Someone’s Crying… What! 3.19
  9. All Together… Oh That! 3.41 
  10. No Hang Ups 2.56 
  11. My Sweetheart 3.38 
  12. Father Bach 1.33
  13. Focus IV (rough mix) 4.02 
  14. Bennie Helder (rough mix) 3.45 
  15. Vanilla (rough mix) 5.42
  16. Mother Focus (rough mix) 3.02
  17. All Together… Oh That! (rough mix) 3.42 
  18. My Sweetheart (rough mix) 3.46 
  19. Someone’s Crying… What! (rough mix) 3.18 
  20. Studio 55 Jam 6.56


CD7 – SHIP OF MEMORIES Original release: 1976

  1. P’s March 4.48
  2. Can’t Believe My Eyes 5.22
  3. Focus V 3.02
  4. Out Of Vesuvius 5.51
  5. Glider 4.40
  6. Red Sky At Night 5.52
  7. Spoke The Lord Creator 2.33
  8. Crackers 2.42
  9. Ship Of Memories 1.47
  10. Elektrisch Levenslicht (Neerlands Hoop in Bange Dagen) 3.09
  11. The Shrine Of God (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 3.39
  12. Watch The Ugly People (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 2.19 
  13. House Of The King (rough mix version 1) 2.27
  14. . House Of The King (rough mix version 2) 2.26 
  15. Focus III (unreleased single version) 4.37  
  16. Hocus Pocus (US single version – takes 14-17) 7.12
  17. Glider (single version) 3.28 
  18. P’s March (single version) 4.07) 
  19. O Avondrood 5.10)
  20. Crackers (vocal version) 2.31)


CD8 – FOCUS BBC 1973 

  1. Focus III (3.54) 
  2. Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (12.09) 
  3. Focus II (5.06)
  4. Anonymus II (23.30) 
  5. Focus I (4.27) 
  6. Hocus Pocus (7.38) 
  7. Sylvia – Hocus Pocus (reprise) (5.52)

CD9 – LIVE 1971 – 1975

  1. Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) (46.37)
  2. Birth (11.38)
  3. Improvisation #1 (8.35)
  4. House Of The King (3.02)
  5. Improvisation #2 (6.23)
  6. Hocus Pocus (3.20)
     

DVD-1 – FOCUS SIGHT & SOUND VOL. 1 

  1. BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (May 1972) (24.26) 
  2. BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (December 1972) (16.01) 
  3. Focus At The Rainbow (May 1973) (47.28)
  4. BBC In Concert (April 1974) (36.18)

DVD-2 – FOCUS SIGHT & SOUND VOL. 2

  1. NOS Van Gewest Tot Gewest (July 1970) (1.54)
  2. NOS Uit De Kunst (June 1972) (3.51) 
  3. RTE The Music Makers: Focus at the Stadium (November 1973) (48.00)
  4. VARA Nederpopzien (December 1973) (34.22)
  5. AVRO Toppop: Harem Scarem (May 1974) (3.01 )
  6. AVRO Toppop: O Avondrood (June 1976)(4.51) 
  7. Veronica Goud van Oud (April 1990) (16.44)
  8. NCRV Classic Albums: Moving Waves (June 1997) (50.02)

Thijs van Leer
Vocals-Keyboards-Flute


Jan Akkerman
Guitar


Bert Ruiter
Bass


Pierre Van Der Linden
Drums


With:

Mike Vernon: Vocals (tracks: 3-1)
Martijn Dresden: Bass Guitar, Trumpet, Backing Vocals  (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 7-7, 7-10 to 7-14, DVD2-1)
Cyril Havermans: Bass Guitar, Vocals  (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Wouter Möller: Cello (tracks: 1-3)
David Kemper: Drums (tracks: 6- to 6-9, 6-11 to 6-20, 7-6, 7-8, 7-19, 7-20)
Colin Allen: Drums, Congas, Tambourine, Castanets, Cabasa, Wood Block, Gong, Timpani, Cuica, Percussion [Flexatone], Handclaps  (tracks: 5-1 to 5-9, 6-10, 9-2, DVD1-13 to DVD1-16, DVD2-7 to DVD2-13)
Hans Cleuver: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals  (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 7-7, 7-10 to 7-15, DVD2-1)
Mike Vernon: Tambourine  (tracks: 3-3)
Bram VermeulenVocals  (tracks: 7-10)
Ramses Shaffy: Vocals (tracks: 7-11, 7-12)

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