O Focus é uma banda de rock progressivo holandesa fundada em 1969 pelo organista e flautista Thijs van Leer. Suas extensas e quase exclusivas composições instrumentais e improvisações continham várias referências à música erudita. Um exemplo é a referência a ópera de Monteverdi na canção "Eruption", do álbum Moving Waves. Outra demonstração está na referência à Johann Sebastian Bach em "Carnival Fugue", do álbum Focus 3, ou ainda das referências ao Renascimento de "Anonymus II", do mesmo álbum.

Formação

* Thijs van Leer - órgão e flauta (1969 - 1978, desde 2001)
* Jan Akkerman - guitarra (1970 - 1976)
* Cyriel Havermans - baixo (1969 - 1978)
* Pierre van der Linden - bateria (1969 - 1978, desde 2004)
* P. J. Proby - vocal (1977 - 1978)
* Jan Dumée - guitarra (2001 - 2006)
* Bobby Jacobs - baixo (desde 2001)
* Bert Smaak - bateria (2001 - 2004)
* Niels van der Steenhoven - guitarra (2005 - 2011)
* Menno Gootjes - guitarra (desde 2011)





Focus - In And Out Of Focus - 1971



01-Focus (Vocal)
02-Black Beauty
03-Sugar Island
04-Anonymus
05-House Of The King
06-Happy Nightmare (Mescaline)
07-Why Dream
08-Focus (Instrumental)

Focus - Moving Waves - 1971



01-Hocus Pocus
02-Le Clochard
03-Janis
04-Moving Waves
05-Focus II
06-Eruption

Focus - Focus - III - 1972



01-Round Goes The Gossip
02-Love Remembered
03-Sylvia
04-Carnival Fugue
05-Focus III
06-Answers Questions Questions Answers
07-Elspeth Of Nottingham
08-Anonymous Two

Focus - Live At The Rainbow - 1973



01-Focus III
02-Answers Questions Questions Answers
03-Focus II
04-Eruption Orfeus Answer
05-Hocus Pocus
06-Sylvia
07-Hocus Pocus (Reprise)

Focus - Hamburger Concerto - 1974



01-Delite Musicae
02-Harem Scarem
03-La Cathedrale De Strasbourg
04-Birth
05-Hamburger Concerto
06-Early Birth

Focus - Mother Focus - 1975



01-Mother Focus
02-I Need A Bathroom
03-Bennie Helder
04-Soft Vanilla
05-Hard Vanilla
06-Tropic Bird
07-Focus Iv
08-Someones Crying What
09-All Together Oh That
10-No Hang Ups
11-My Sweetheart

Focus - Ship Of Memories - 1976



01-PS March
02-Cant Believe My Eyes
03-Focus V
04-Out of Vesuvius
05-Glider
06-Red Sky At Night
07-Spoke The Lord Creator
08-Crackers
09-Ship Of Memories
10-Hocus Pocus (US Single Version)

Focus - Focus Con Proby - 1978



01-Wingless
02-Orion
03-Night Flight
04-Eddy
05-Sneezing Bull
06-Brother
07-Tokyo Rose
08-Maximum
How Long

Focus - Focus On Focus - 1979



01-Tommy
02-House Of The King
03-No Hang Ups
04-Sneezing Bull
05- Focus IV
06-Anonymus
07-Bennie Helder
08-Sylvia
09-Focus II
10-Wingless
11-Hocus Pocus
12-Harem Scarem
13-Mother Focus
14-Brother

Focus - Jan Akkerman And Thijs Van Leer - 1985



01-Russian Roulette
02-King Kong
03-Le Tango
04-Indian Summer
05-Beethovens Revenge
06-Ole Judy
07-Whos Calling

Focus - Focus - 8



01-Rock And Rio
02-Tamaras Move (Allegro-Adagio-Allegro)
03-Fretless Love
04-Hurkey Turkey
05-De Ti O De Mi
06-Focus 8
07-Sto Ces Raditi Ostatac Zivota
08-Neurotika
09-Brother
10-Bluzu Tebe
11-Flower Shower

Focus - Focus - 9 - New Skin - 2006



01-Black Beauty
02-Focus 7
03-Hurkey Turkey 2
04-Sylvias Stepson
05-Niels Skin
06-Just Like Eddy
07-Aya-Yuppie-Hippie-Yee
08-Focus 9
09-Curtain Call
10-Ode To venus
11-European Rap(Sody)
12-Pim
13-It Takes 2 2 Tango

Focus - For Fans Only - Live Europe - 2009



CD - 01

01-Sylvias Stepson
02-House Of The King
03-Tamaras Move
04-Focus 7
05-Aya Yippie Hippie Yee
06-Eruption
07-Sylvia

CD - 02

01-Black Beauty
02-La Cathedrale
03-Harem Scarem
04-De Ti O De Mi
05-Round goes The Gossip
06-Ode To Venus
07-Hocus Pocus

Focus - The Best Hocus Pocus



01-Anonymous
02-Bennie Helder
03-Focus (Instrumental)
04-Focus II
05-Focus III
06-Focus IV
07-Glider
08-Harem Scarum
09-Hocus Pocus
10-Hocus Pocus (US Single Version)
11-House Of The King
12-Janis
13-Mother Focus
14-Red Sky At Night
15-Sylvia
16-Tommy