FOCUS 3 _ 1972

1 - Round Goes the Gossip – 5:12

2 - Love Remembered – 2:49

3 - Sylvia – 3:31

4 - Carnival Fugue – 6:08

5 - Focus III – 6:04

6 - Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! – 13:55

7 - Elspeth of Nottingham – 3:06

8 - Anonymus Two – 26:19

Thijs van Leer – keyboards, flute, piccolo, recorder, vocals

Jan Akkerman – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lute

Bert Ruiter – bass guitar

Pierre van der Linden – drums

Mike Vernon their producer - backing vocals on "Round Goes The Gossip"

Focus were a Dutch band led by guitarist Jan Akkerman that debuted with In And Out Of Focus (1970). Moving Waves (1972) contains the fast-paced novelty number Hocus Pocus, a melodic fantasy for the age of hard-rock. But the album's centerpiece is actually the 23-minute jam Eruption, their equivalent of the Colosseum's Valentyne Suite. Following albums were far less interesting: Focus 3 (1972), that contains the 27-minute instrumental jam Anonymus II (way too long for what it has to say), Hamburger Concerto (1974), that contains the ambitious (and much better) side-long title-track, Ship Of Memories (1974), Mother Focus (1975). In 1977 Belgian jazz guitarist Philip Catherine replaced Akkerman and Focus releases Focus Con Proby (1978).

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