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 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 is curated by Focus/Jan Akkerman archivist Wouter Bessels. Additionally, it includes 1973 live album At The Rainbow, the Ship of Memories compilation from 1976 (which features 11 bonus tracks), the complete BBC In Concert 1973 gig taken from the original stereo master tapes and a disc of unreleased live performances.

Two DVDs (PAL, region-free) contain over four hours of audiovisual material taken from the archives of various TV stations around the world and include the first official release of the 1973 'Focus At The Rainbow' concert movie, carefully restored from the original 16 mm film.

The box set comes with an 80-page booklet with band history, liner notes and various memorabilia.

Tracklist

CD 1

  Focus Plays Focus / In And Out Of Focus
1-1 Focus (Instrumental) 9:46
1-2 Why Dream 3:56
1-3 Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3:56
1-4 Anonymus 7:01
1-5 Black Beauty 3:05
1-6 Sugar Island 3:02
1-7 Focus (Vocal) 2:43
Bonus Tracks
1-8 House Of The King 2:23
1-9 Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37:31

CD2
Focus II / Moving Waves
2-1 Hocus Pocus 6:41
2-2 Le Clochard 1:59
2-3 Janis 3:06
2-4 Moving Waves 2:41
2-5 Focus II 4:03
2-6 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla – Answer – The Bridge – Euridice – Dayglow – Endless Road – Answer – Orfeus – Euridice)

Bonus Tracks
2-7 Hocus Pocus (Single Version) 3:27
2-8 Tommy (Single Version) 3:25
2-9 Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14:11

CD3

Focus 3
3-1 Round Goes The Gossip... 5:16
3-2 Love Remembered 2:48
3-3 Sylvia 3:32
3-4 Carnival Fugue 6:07
3-5 Focus III 6:05
3-6 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14:03
3-7 Anonymus II (Part 1) 19:33
3-8 Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7:34
3-9 Elspeth Of Nottingham 3:13
Bonus Tracks
3-10 Sylvia (Single Version) 3:32
3-11 Love Remembered (Single Version) 2:49
3-12 Hocus Pocus (US Single Version) 3:25

CD4

At The Rainbow
4-1 Focus III 3:52
4-2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11:26
4-3 Focus II 4:24
4-4 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla) 8:40
4-5 Hocus Pocus 8:27
4-6 Sylvia 2:47
4-7 Hocus Pocus – Reprise 2:48
Bonus Tracks
4-8 P's March (Original Mix – Single Version) 3:27
4-9 Ship Of Memories (Original Mix) 4:40
4-10 P's March (Original Mix – Full Version) 4:03

CD5
Hamburger Concerto
5-1 Delitae Musicae 1:13
5-2 Harem Scarem 5:50
5-3 La Cathèdrale De Strasbourg 4:57
5-4 Birth 7:45
5-5 Hamburger Concerto (Starter – Rare – Medium I – Medium II – Well Done – One For The Road) 20:23
Bonus Tracks
5-6 Early Birth 2:56
5-7 Harem Scarem (Single Version) 3:08
5-8 Birth (Alternate Mix) 7:43
5-9 Harem Scarem (Alternate Mix) 5:51

CD6

Mother Focus
6-1 Mother Focus 3:05
6-2 I Need A Bathroom 3:04
6-3 Bennie Helder 3:33
6-4 Soft Vanilla 3:04
6-5 Hard Vanilla 2:35
6-6 Tropic Bird 2:45
6-7 Focus IV 3:57
6-8 Someone's Crying... What? 3:19
6-9 All Together... Oh That! 3:41
6-10 No Hang Ups 2:56
6-11 My Sweetheart 3:38
6-12 Father Bach 1:33
Bonus Tracks
6-13 Focus IV (Rough Mix) 4:02
6-14 Bennie Helder (Rough Mix) 3:45
6-15 Vanilla (Rough Mix) 5:42
6-16 Mother Focus (Rough Mix) 3:02
6-17 All Together... Oh That! (Rough Mix) 3:42
6-18 My Sweetheart (Rough Mix) 3:46
6-19 Someone's Crying... What! (Rough Mix) 3:18
6-20 Studio 55 Jam 6:56

CD7

Ship Of Memories
7-1 P's March 4:48
7-2 Can't Believe My Eyes 5:22
7-3 Focus V 3:02
7-4 Out Of Vesuvius 5:51
7-5 Glider 4:40
7-6 Red Sky At Night 5:52
7-7 Spoke The Lord Creator 2:33
7-8 Crackers 2:42
7-9 Ship Of Memories 1:47
Bonus Tracks
7-10 Elektrisch Levenslicht 3:09
7-11 The Shrine Of God 3:39
7-12 Watch The Ugly People 2:19
7-13 House Of The King (Rough Mix Version 1) 2:27
7-14 House Of The King (Rough Mix Version 2) 2:26
7-15 Focus (Unreleased Single Version) 4:37
7-16 Hocus Pocus (US Single Version – Takes 14-17) 7:12
7-17 Glider (Single Version) 3:28
7-18 P's March (Single Version) 4:07
7-19 O Avondrood 5:10
7-20 Crackers (Vocal Version) 2:31

CD8

Focus BBC 1973
8-1 Focus III 3:54
8-2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 12:09
8-3 Focus II 5:06
8-4 Anonymus II 23:30
8-5 Focus I 4:27
8-6 Hocus Pocus 7:38
8-7 Sylvia – Hocus Pocus (Reprise) 5:52

CD9
Live 1971 - 1975
9-1 Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) 46:37
9-2 Birth 11:38
9-3 Improvisation #1 8:35
9-4 House Of The King 3:02
9-5 Improvisation #2 6:23
9-6 Hocus Pocus 3:20

DVD 1

Focus Sight & Sound Vol.1
BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (May 1972) (24:26)
DVD1-1 Eruption/Hocus Pocus (Take 1)
DVD1-2 Eruption/Hocus Pocus (Take 2)
BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (December 1972) (16:01)
DVD1-3 Anonymous II (Take 2)
DVD1-4 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Take 1)
Focus At The Rainbow (May 1973) (47:28)
DVD1-5 Focus III
DVD1-6 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
DVD1-7 Focus II
DVD1-8 Eruption
DVD1-9 Hocus Pocus
DVD1-10 House Of The King
DVD1-11 Britannia (Jan Akkerman Lute Solo)
DVD1-12 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
BBC In Concert (April 1974) (36:18)
DVD1-13 Hamberger Concerto
DVD1-14 La Cathèdrale De Strasbourg
DVD1-15 Harem Scarem
DVD1-16 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)

DVD 2

Focus Sight & Sound Vol.2
DVD2-1 NOS Van Gewest Tot Gewest (July 1970) 1:54
DVD2-2 NOS Uit De Kunst (June 1972) 3:51
RTE The Music Makers: Focus At The Stadium (November 1973) (48:00)
DVD2-3 Anonymous II
DVD2-4 Eruption
DVD2-5 Hocus Pocus
DVD2-6 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
VARA Nederpopzien (December 1973) (34:22)
DVD2-7 House Of The King
DVD2-8 Hocus Pocus
DVD2-9 Britannia (Jan Akkerman Lute Solo)
DVD2-10 Hamberger Concerto
DVD2-11 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
DVD2-12 AVRO Toppop: Harem Scarem (May 1974) 3:01
DVD2-13 AVRO Toppop: O Avondrood (June 1976) 4:51
Veronica Goud van Oud (April 1990) (16:44)
DVD2-14 Focus III
DVD2-15 Focus II
DVD2-16 House Of The King
DVD2-17 Tommy
DVD2-19 Sylvia
DVD2-19 NCRV Classic Albums: Moving Waves (June 1997) 50:02