50 Years: Anthology 1970–1976
Compilation by Focus
Released 13 November 2020
Tracklist
- CD 1: Focus Plays Focus / In and Out of Focus
- 1Focus (instrumental)9:46
- 2Why Dream3:56
- 3Happy Nightmare (Mescaline)3:56
- 4Anonymus7:01
- 5Black Beauty3:05
- 6Sugar Island3:02
- 7Focus (vocal)2:43
- 8House of the King2:235.0 ★
- 9Eruption (live Lanx 1970)37:31
- CD 2: Focus II / Moving Waves
- 1Hocus Pocus6:414.8 ★
- 2Le Clochard1:593.0 ★
- 3Janis3:063.0 ★
- 4Moving Waves2:413.0 ★
- 5Focus II4:033.0 ★
- 6Eruption, Parts I–V23:073.0 ★
- 7Hocus Pocus (single version)3:27
- 8Tommy (single version)3:25
- 9Focus I (live Texel 1971)14:11
- CD 3: Focus 3
- 1Round Goes the Gossip…5:16
- 2Love Remembered2:48
- 3Sylvia3:323.6 ★
- 4Carnival Fugue6:07
- 5Focus III6:05
- 6Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!14:03
- 7Anonymus II (Part 1)19:33
- 8Anonymus II (Conclusion)7:34
- 9Elspeth of Nottingham3:13
- 10Sylvia (single version)3:32
- 11Love Remembered (single version)2:49
- 12Hocus Pocus (US single version)3:25
- CD 4: At the Rainbow
- 1Focus III3:52
- 2Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!11:26
- 3Focus II4:24
- 4Eruption, Parts I–VII8:40
- 5Hocus Pocus8:27
- 6Sylvia2:47
- 7Hocus Pocus – (reprise)2:48
- 8P’s March (original mix – single version)3:27
- 9Ship of Memories (original mix)4:40
- 10P’s March (original mix – full version)4:03
- CD 5: Hamburger Concerto
- 1Delitae Musicae1:13
- 2Harem Scarem5:50
- 3La Cathèdrale de Strasbourg4:57
- 4Birth7:45
- 5Hamburger Concerto, Parts I–VI20:23
- 6Early Birth2:56
- 7Harem Scarem (single version)3:08
- 8Birth (alternate mix)7:43
- 9Harem Scarem (alternate mix)5:51
- CD 6: Mother Focus
- 1Mother Focus3:05
- 2I Need a Bathroom3:04
- 3Bennie Helder3:33
- 4Soft Vanilla3:04
- 5Hard Vanilla2:35
- 6Tropic Bird2:45
- 7Focus IV3:57
- 8Someone’s Crying… What?3:19
- 9All Together… Oh That!3:41
- 10No Hang Ups2:56
- 11My Sweetheart3:38
- 12Father Bach1:33
- 13Focus IV (rough mix)4:02
- 14Bennie Helder (rough mix)3:45
- 15Vanilla (rough mix)5:42
- 16Mother Focus (rough mix)3:02
- 17All Together… Oh That! (rough mix)3:42
- 18My Sweetheart (rough mix)3:46
- 19Someone’s Crying… What! (rough mix)3:18
- 20Studio 55 Jam6:56
- CD 7: Ship of Memories
- 1P’s March4:48
- 2Can’t Believe My Eyes5:22
- 3Focus V3:02
- 4Out of Vesuvius5:51
- 5Glider4:40
- 6Red Sky at Night5:52
- 7Spoke the Lord Creator2:333.0 ★
- 8Crackers2:42
- 9Ship of Memories1:47
- 10Elektrisch levenslicht3:09
- 11The Shrine of God3:39
- 12Watch the Ugly People2:19
- 13House of the King (rough mix version 1)2:27
- 14House of the King (rough mix version 2)2:26
- 15Focus (unreleased single version)4:37
- 16Hocus Pocus (US single version – takes 14–17)7:12
- 17Glider (single version)3:28
- 18P’s March (single version)4:07
- 19O Avondrood5:10
- 20Crackers (vocal version)2:31
- CD 8: Focus BBC 1973
- 1Focus III3:54
- 2Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!12:09
- 3Focus II5:06
- 4Anonymus II23:30
- 5Focus I4:27
- 6Hocus Pocus7:38
- 7Sylvia / Hocus Pocus (reprise)5:52
- CD 9: Focus Live 1971 – 1975
- 1Eruption (live Rotterdam 1971)46:37
- 2Birth11:38
- 3Improvisation #18:35
- 4House of the King3:02
- 5Improvisation #26:23
- 6Hocus Pocus3:20
More by Focus
Release credits
- bass guitar [1.8, 5.2-6, 3.1-9], instrument [1-5, 8]
- membranophone [2-6]
- instrument [8], membranophone [6]
- performer [1-6], producer [5-6, 8]
- recording [1.8, 3.1-9]
- drums (drum set) [1-3, 5-7], instrument [7]
- producer [7]
- acoustic guitar [8], classical guitar [1], electric sitar [5], guitar [3.1-6, 3.9, 1.1-3, 1.5-7, 7.5, 5.2-6], instrument [1-4, 6-8]
- recording [1-6]
- instrument [7], performer [1-3, 5-7]
- background vocals [1], producer [3.1-6, 3.9, 7.1-4, 7.9]
- drums (drum set) [3.1-9, 1.8], harmonium [9], instrument [1-4], membranophone [5, 9]
- Hammond organ [4], Moog [6], alto flute [1], clavinet [1], concert flute [1, 4-5], flute [7.1, 1.1-3, 1.5-7], harpsichord [4], instrument [2-5, 7-8], keyboard [5.2-3, 5.5-6, 3.1-6, 3.9], mellotron [1], organ [7.1, 1.1-3, 1.5-7], piccolo [1], vocal [1.2-3, 1.5-7, 3.1]
Issues
513 November 2020- 59x CD, 2x DVD13 November 2020





