Focus - 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 [9 CD] (2020

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Focus - 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 [9 CD] (2020) FLAC
Label: Red Bullet [RB 66.317]
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 10:23:46
Full Size: 3.53 GB

The band - guitarist Jan Akkerman, keyboard player Thijs van Leer, bass player Bert Ruiter and drummer Pierre van der Linden - enjoyed global success during their first six years, touring extensively in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Japan.

Focus scored two unlikely worldwide hit singles with 'Hocus Pocus' and 'Sylvia' and sold several million albums during this period (such as 'Moving Waves', 'Focus 3' and 'Hamburger Concerto').

50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 features newly remastered versions of the first five studio albums all of which come with rare bonus tracks (single versions, alternates, rough mixes). 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.

Focus Plays Focus / In And Out Of Focus [1970] (01:13:49)
01 Focus (instrumental) 9.46
02 Why Dream 3.56
03 Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3.56
04 Anonymus 7.01
05 Black Beauty 3.05
06 Sugar Island 3.02
07 Focus (vocal) 2.43

BONUS TRACKS

08 House Of The King 2.23
09 Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37.31

Focus II / Moving Waves [1971] (01:03:08)
01 Hocus Pocus 6.41
02 Le Clochard (Bread) 1.59
03 Janis 3.06
04 Moving Waves 2.41
05 Focus II 4.03
06 Eruption (Orfeus - Answer - Orfeus - Answer - Pupilla - Tommy - Pupilla - Answer - The Bridge - Euridice - Dayglow - Endless Road - Answer - Orfeus - Euridice) 23.07

BONUS TRACKS

07 Hocus Pocus (single version) 3.27
08 Tommy (single version) 3.25
09 Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14.11

Focus 3 [1972] (01:18:26)
01 Round Goes The Gossip. 5.16
02 Love Remembered 2.48
03 Sylvia 3.32
04 Carnival Fugue 6.07
05 Focus III 6.05
06 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14.03
07 Anonymus II (Part 1) 19.33
08 Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7.34
09 Elspeth Of Nottingham 3.13

BONUS TRACKS

01 Sylvia (single version) 3.32
02 Love Remembered (single version) 2.49
03 Hocus Pocus (US single version) 3.25

At the Rainbow [1973] (00:54:51)
01 Focus III 3.52
02 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11.26
03 Focus II 4.24
04 Eruption (Orfeus - Answer - Orfeus - Answer - Pupilla - Tommy - Pupilla) 8.40
05 Hocus Pocus 8.27
06 Sylvia 2.47
07 Hocus Pocus - reprise 2.48

BONUS TRACKS

08 P's March (original mix - single version) 3.27
09 Ship Of Memories (original mix) 4.40
10 P's March (original mix - full version) 4.03

Hamburger Concerto [1974] (01:00:09)
01 Deliti? Music? 1.13
02 Harem Scarem 5.50
03 La Cathedrale de Strasbourg 4.57
04 Birth 7.45
05 Hamburger Concerto (Starter - Rare - Medium I - Medium II - Well Done - One For The Road) 20.23

BONUS TRACKS

06 Early Birth 2.56
07 Harem Scarem (single version) 3.08
08 Birth (alternate mix) 7.43
09 Harem Scarem (alternate mix) 5.51

Mother Focus [1975] (01:12:32)
01 Mother Focus 3.05
02 I Need A Bathroom 3.04
03 Bennie Helder 3.33
04 Soft Vanilla 3.04
05 Hard Vanilla 2.35
06 Tropic Bird 2.45
07 Focus IV 3.57
08 Someone's Crying. What! 3.19
09 All Together. Oh That! 3.41
10 No Hang Ups 2.56
11 My Sweetheart 3.38
12 Father Bach 1.33

BONUS TRACKS

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

Ship Of Memories [1976] (01:18:22)
01 P's March 4.48
02 Can't Believe My Eyes 5.22
03 Focus V 3.02
04 Out Of Vesuvius 5.51
05 Glider 4.40
06 Red Sky At Night 5.52
07 Spoke The Lord Creator 2.33
08 Crackers 2.42
09 Ship Of Memories 1.47

BONUS TRACKS

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

Focus BBC 1973 (01:02:39)
01 Focus III 3.54
02 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 12.09
03 Focus II 5.06
04 Anonymus II 23.30
05 Focus I 4.27
06 Hocus Pocus 7.38
07 Sylvia - Hocus Pocus (reprise) 5.52

Produced and recorded by BBC Radio 1 In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, 17th January 1973.

Focus Live 1971-1975 (01:19:47)
01 Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) 46.37
02 Birth 11.38
03 Improvisation #1 8.35
04 House Of The King 3.02
05 Improvisation #2 6.23
06 Hocus Pocus 3.20

Track 1: Recorded by AVRO radio at the Newport Jazz Festival, Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 29th October 1971.
Track 2: Recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, 2nd July 1974.
Track 3-6: Recorded at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 21st June 1975.

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