Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

Focus is a Dutch rock band which was founded by classically trained organist / flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, and is most famous for the instrumental pieces " Hocus Pocus " and " Sylvia ".

In 1971, the group released Focus II ( aka Moving Waves ), which brought the band international acclaim and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with the radio edit of " Hocus Pocus ".

In 2001, Thijs van Leer re-formed Focus with himself, stepson Bobby Jacobs on bass, guitarist Jan Dumée, and drummer Ruben van Roon ( all are former members of the band CONXI ).

In the same year, the band released the album Focus 9 / New Skin, on the Red Bullet label, which currently owns the entire back catalogue of Focus.

The band is currently working on its next studio album, tentatively titled " Focus 10-Crossroads ," with album art to be created by famed artist Roger Dean.

One of the earliest songs to portray an unusual marriage between yodeling and rock music was " Hocus Pocus " by the Dutch band Focus.

In the early 70s the Dutch band Focus used the 271 and 371 models while on the tour following the release of their Focus II ( Moving Waves ) LP.

The label was distributed by Polydor Records from 1970 until 1971, during which time the now-famous logo was introduced, and then by Famous Music from 1972 to 1974, during which the progressive rock band Focus charted with their 1972 hit " Hocus Pocus ".

Assorted fake acts have also been mentioned in HMHB songs such as the fictional Focus tribute band " I Can't Believe It's Not Focus ".

However, Sean proved to have quite a good musical chemistry with the rest of the band, and toured the Focus Tour with the band.

The material was originally shelved when the band shifted gears and instead recorded The Fashion Focus.

The Focus lacked the exhaust-side VCT, and contained less aggressive camshafts that pushed the power band down a few hundred RPM.

Thijs Van Leer ( pronounced: ; born 31 March 1948 ) is a Dutch musician, singer and composer, best known for heading the Dutch progressive rock band, Focus, as primary vocalist, Hammond organ player, and flautist.

For this album, the band continued to develop its sound in the same direction that they had taken for their previous release, The Fashion Focus.

# Pragmatic functions: ( Theme and Rheme, Topic and Focus ) Predicate ), defining the informational status of constituents, determined by the pragmatic context of the verbal interaction.

* Joseph McBride ( ed ), Focus on Howard Hawks, Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1972

* Schmidtz, David ( Editor ) ( 2002 ), Robert Nozick Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00671-2

After their next two albums Focus III ( 1972 ) and Hamburger Concerto ( 1974 ), they fell away from symphonic prog.

* April 21 – James Dobson, Ph. D. ( Focus On The Family ), American child psychologist and conservative political activist

* The Berlin Olympics ( World Focus Books ), by James P. Barry

Working with independent studios such as the now-shuttered Fine Line, Artisan ( which was absorbed into today's Lionsgate ), and USA Films ( now Focus Features ), gave Altman the edge in making the kinds of films he has always wanted to make without studio interference.

At the release of their first album Focus Plays Focus ( aka In and Out of Focus ) ( 1970 ), Focus comprised keyboardist and flutist Thijs van Leer, guitarist Jan Akkerman, bassist Martin Dresden, and drummer Hans Cleuver.

The album Mother Focus ( 1975 ), featuring new drummer David Kemper, was released to mostly negative reviews.

Among those represented were Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization ( Medea Benjamin and Linda Chavez-Thompson ), the Brazilian NGO Ibase ( Cândido Grzybowski and Moema Miranda ), the Brazilian association of entrepreneurs for citizenship CIVES ( Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF ), the Brazilian Commission on Justice and Peace ( Francisco Whitaker ), ATTAC ( Christophe Aguiton ), CRID France ( Gustave Massiah ), Focus on the Global South Thailand ( Nicola Bullard ), and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World ( Gustavo Marín ).

* Focus ( cognitive process ), selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things

* Focus ( computing ), a term used to describe which of a number of GUI elements currently accepts keyboard input

* Focus ( optics ), a point toward which light rays are made to converge

* Focus ( linguistics ), a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the Dutch pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus.

Akkerman's " House of the King " ( from the Focus Plays Focus album ) was the title theme of Don't Ask Me, a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy.

In the late 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney.

In the early 1970s he was attracted to the sound of progressive rock of bands like Renaissance and Focus, but also to the so-called soft rock produced by performers like America and James Taylor.

They released several albums in the 1970s, earning two gold records ( for " Moving Waves " and " Focus 3 ") which spawned international hit singles " Hocus Pocus " and " Sylvia ".

* 1946 – Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist, Focus

** Jan Akkerman, Dutch rock guitarist ( Focus )

In 1978, Proby recorded with the Dutch rock group Focus releasing Focus con Proby.

The Dutch jazz / rock guitarist Jan Akkerman recorded a composition called " Saudade ", the centerpiece of his 1996 album Focus In Time.

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The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

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The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

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