Focus releasing 2 albums in a boxed set: "Live in Rio 2017" & "Completely Focussed"

 Live in Rio 2017 2 CD / 1 BluRay
Bonus CD: Completely Focussed

Focus 50th Anniversary logo 


Focus line-up 2017-present. From left to right:
Menno Gootjes (guitar), Pierre van der Linden (drums), Thijs van Leer (keyboards, flute, vocals), and Udo Pannekeet (bass).

Cover of the brand new album release. Will be released April 30th.

In November 2020, a box set containing new remasters of the band's albums from 1970 to 1976, with previously unreleased audio and video material, entitled 50 Years: Anthology 1970–1976, was released by Red Bullet Productions to commemorate the band's 50th anniversary. This will be followed by the release of Focus 50, a set featuring live material recorded in 2017 in Rio de Janeiro and a disc entitled Completely Focused, containing studio re-recordings of "Focus 1" through "Focus 12". The album will be released on 30 April 2021. A new studio album, Focus 12 is expected in early 2022.

DISC ONE: LIVE IN RIO CD
1. FOCUS 1
2. HOUSE OF THE KING
3. ERUPTION
4. SYLVIA
5. SONG FOR EVA
6. ALL HENS ON DECK

DISC TWO: LIVE IN RIO CD
1. LE TANGO
2. P’S MARCH
3. FOCUS 5
4. HAREM SCAREM
5. HOCUS POCUS
6. FOCUS 3

DISC THREE: LIVE IN RIO BLU-RAY
1. FOCUS 1
2. HOUSE OF THE KING
3. ERUPTION
4. SYLVIA
5. SONG FOR EVA
6. ALL HENS ON DECK
7. LE TANGO
8. P’S MARCH
9. FOCUS 5
10. HAREM SCAREM
11. HOCUS POCUS
12. FOCUS 3

DISC FOUR: COMPLETELY FOCUSSED CD
1. FOCUS 1
2. FOCUS 2
3. FOCUS 3
4. FOCUS 4
5. FOCUS 5
6. FOCUS 6
7. FOCUS 7
8. FOCUS 8
9. FOCUS 9
10. FOCUS 10
11. FOCUS 11
12. FOCUS 12

 Focus 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976


"FOCUS" as it was written on Thijs' Hammond organ he used between 1973-1997.

Focus in 1971. From left to right:
Pierre van der Linden (drums), Thijs van Leer (keyboards, flute, vocals), Jan Akkerman (guitar), Cyril Havermans (bass, vocals).

Box set cover




Content:

> First seven albums (released between 1970 and 1976) 24-bit remastered from the original tapes
> B-sides, single mixes and previously unreleased bonus tracks
> CD featuring the first official release of BBC In Concert 1973; in stereo from the BBC archive tapes
> CD featuring 80 minutes of previously unreleased Focus concert recordings from 1971-1975
> 2 DVDs featuring the complete Focus At the Rainbow concert film from 1973 restored and remastered from the original 16 mm film, two BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ broadcasts from 1972 and BBC In Concert from 1974, plus rare footage from Focus live in Dublin 1973, various clips, the ‘Goud van Oud’ reunion from 1990 and the ‘Focus 2 Classic Albums’ documentary from 1997
> 80-page booklet with band history, liner notes and various memorabilia


https://www.discogs.com/Focus-50-Years-Anthology-1970-1976/release/16227594






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