Focus
Hair
1969
The story of Focus starts in the late sixties with the Dutch version of the musical Hair. Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Martijn Dresden and Hans Cleuver were engaged as the pivotal part of a nine piece orchestra to perform the musical accompaniment for the shows. Van Leer, Dresden, Cleuver and Akkerman are to be heard together for the first time on the Dutch Hair album.
The four musicians toured with the production for six months or so, before going on to form the first version of the band, and releasing their debut album.
There exists 2 versions of the LP. This is the really rare one.
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Polydor
- Manufactured
- Holland
- Media
- Vinyl LP
- Release No.
- 2441 002
- Musicians
- Jan Akkerman
Thijs van Leer
Martijn Dresden
Hans Cleuver
H. van Stiphout
H. Sevenstern Jr.
C. J. Doets
P. B. Terlaak
Th. Hoolwerf
D. v. d. Veer
Robin Lent
- Producer
- Del Newman & Peter Niewerf
- Engineer
- Jos Ditmars
- Studio
- Phonogram Studios
- Tracks
- Aquarius
Donna/Hashish
I'm Black/Ain't Got No
Dead End
I Got Life
Going Down
Hair
My Conviction
Hare Krishna
Where Do I Go
Sheila Franklin
Frank Mills
Oh Great God Of Power
Walking in Space
3-5-0-0
What a Piece of Work is Man
Flesh Failures Eyes Look Your Last