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Focus (band)

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Focus are a Dutch rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer. [1]

140 relations: A Whiter Shade of Pale, A-side and B-side, Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep, Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, At the Rainbow, Atco Records, Aynsley Dunbar, Baarn, Barnes, London, BBC Radio 1, BBC Two, Bert Ruiter, Billboard (magazine), Bob Dylan, Bob Harris (radio), Bobby Jacobs, Brainbox, Brussels, Buma Export Award, Chelsea, London, Cherry Red Records, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Classical music, Claudio Monteverdi, Colin Allen, Concierto de Aranjuez, Cyril (album), Cyril Havermans, David Bellamy, David Kemper, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Don't Ask Me (TV programme), Double album, Drum machine, Dutch guilder, Edison Award, EMI, EMI Records, Focus (band), Focus (Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer album), Focus 3, Focus 8, Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon, Focus 9 / New Skin, Focus con Proby, Focus II, Focus Plays Focus, Focus X, ..., Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Gibson Les Paul, Golden Oldies (album), Google Books, Gretsch White Falcon, Haarlem, Hair (musical), Hamburger Concerto, Hard rock, Heemstede, Hilversum, Hocus Pocus (song), I Shall Be Released, I.R.S. Records, Imperial Records, Instrumental rock, J. Cole, Jan Akkerman, Jan Dumée, Janis Joplin, Jazz fusion, Joachim van den Hove, Joaquín Rodrigo, Journey (band), L'Orfeo, Long Beach, California, Magnus Pyke, Marquee Club, Melody Maker, Michael Jackson, Middle of the road (music), Mike Vernon (record producer), Mitch Mitchell, MLB 11: The Show, Morgan Studios, Mother Focus, Musea, Netherlands, Newport Jazz Festival, Nights in White Satin, Nike, Inc., NME, North Sea Jazz Festival, Ogg, Olympic Studios, Orfeo ed Euridice, P. J. Proby, Philip Catherine, Phonogram Inc., Pierre van der Linden, Pit orchestra, Polydor Records, Procol Harum, Progressive rock, Radio Luxembourg, Rainbow Theatre, Ramses Shaffy, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Recording Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Rembrandtplein, Rock music, Roger Dean (artist), Saxondale, Seymour Stein, Ship of Memories, Sire Records, Sitcom, Sound Techniques, Steve Coogan, Steve Smith (musician), Sylvia (Focus song), Terneuzen, Texel, The Focus Family Album, The Moody Blues, The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Oval, Thijs van Leer, Top of the Pops, Traffic (band), Trevor Horn, Ullevaal Stadion, Vertigo Records, Victor Spinetti, Wijchen, Write the Future, Yes (band), 2010 FIFA World Cup. Expand index (90 more) »

A Whiter Shade of Pale

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut single by the British rock band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep

AVRO (Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep or in English: "General Association of Radio Broadcasting") was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands.

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At the Rainbow

At the Rainbow is the first live album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in October 1973 on Imperial Records.

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Atco Records

ATCO Records is an American record company and label founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records.

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Aynsley Dunbar

Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer.

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Baarn

Baarn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Bert Ruiter

Bert Ruiter (born 26 November 1946, Amsterdam) is a Dutch bass guitarist, record producer, and composer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Harris (radio)

Robert Brinley Joseph Harris, OBE (born 11 April 1946), known as "'Whispering Bob Harris", is an English music presenter known for being a host of the BBC2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, and as a co-founder of the listings magazine Time Out.

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Bobby Jacobs

Bobby Jacobs (born 1965) is a Dutch bassist, songwriter and producer best known as the former bassist for the Dutch rock band Focus, from 2002 to December 2016.

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Brainbox

Brainbox is a Dutch rock group from the late 1960s/early 1970s.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Buma Export Award

The Buma Export Award (previously Conamus Export Award) is given to the Dutch artists who have sold the most records abroad.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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Chipping Norton Recording Studios

Chipping Norton Recording Studios was a residential recording studio in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, which operated from 1971 until its closure in October 1999.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.

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Colin Allen

Colin Eric Allen (born 9 May 1938, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now in Dorset), England) is an English blues drummer and songwriter.

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Concierto de Aranjuez

The Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar concerto by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo.

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Cyril (album)

Cyril is the first solo album by Dutch singer-songwriter Cyril Havermans.

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Cyril Havermans

Cyril Havermans is a Dutch musician, best known for being in the progressive rock band, Focus.

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David Bellamy

David James Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist.

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David Kemper

David Law Kemper (born 1947/8 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock drummer who was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band (1983–1994) and Bob Dylan's band (1996–2001).

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Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

Don Kirshner's Rock Concert is an American television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and syndicated to television stations, initially through Viacom Enterprises, and later through Syndicast.

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Don't Ask Me (TV programme)

Don't Ask Me was a popular British television science show made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and ran from 1974 to 1978.

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Double album

A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact disc.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Dutch guilder

The Dutch guilder (gulden) or fl. was the currency of the Netherlands from the 17th century until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro.

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Edison Award

The Edison Award is annual Dutch music prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.

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Focus (band)

Focus are a Dutch rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer.

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Focus (Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer album)

Focus is a studio album by Dutch musicians Jan Akkerman and Thijs van Leer, released in 1985 on Vertigo Records.

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Focus 3

Focus 3 or Focus III is the third studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released as a double album in November 1972 on Imperial Records in the Netherlands, Polydor Records in the UK, and Sire Records in the US.

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Focus 8

Focus 8 is the eighth studio album by the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 2002.

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Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon

Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon is the eleventh studio album by the progressive rock band Focus.

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Focus 9 / New Skin

Focus 9 / New Skin is the ninth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in 2006.

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Focus con Proby

Focus con Proby is the seventh studio album by the progressive rock band Focus.

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Focus II

Moving Waves (also known as Focus II) is the second studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in October 1971 on Imperial Records.

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Focus Plays Focus

Focus Plays Focus (better known as its international title In and Out of Focus) is the first studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 1970 on Imperial Records.

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Focus X

Focus X (also known as X) is the tenth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released on 5 November 5 2012 by Eastworld Recordings.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant were an English progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980.

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Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.

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Golden Oldies (album)

Golden Oldies is the eleventh studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released on 14 April 2014.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gretsch White Falcon

The Gretsch White Falcon is an electric hollowbody guitar introduced in 1954 by Gretsch.

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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Hamburger Concerto

Hamburger Concerto is the fourth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Heemstede

Heemstede is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

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Hilversum

Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.

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Hocus Pocus (song)

"Hocus Pocus" is a 1971 song from Moving Waves, the second album by Dutch rock group Focus.

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I Shall Be Released

"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.

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I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979.

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Imperial Records

Imperial Records is an American record company and label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by EMI, which owned the label and back catalogue at the time.

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Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing.

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J. Cole

Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985) is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer.

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Jan Akkerman

Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist.

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Jan Dumée

Jan Dumée (born April 6, 1965) is a Dutch rock/jazz guitar player, composer and record producer.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Joachim van den Hove

Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist.

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Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999), commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.

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Journey (band)

Journey is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1973, composed of former members of Santana and Frumious Bandersnatch.

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L'Orfeo

L'Orfeo (SV 318), sometimes called La favola d'Orfeo, is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.

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Magnus Pyke

Magnus Alfred Pyke OBE FRSE FRIC (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific advisor, writer and presenter.

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Marquee Club

The Marquee Club was a music venue first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road (MOR) loosely describes any type of music that falls between popular music and art music, and includes the work of serious composers who write in a lighter style than normal.

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Mike Vernon (record producer)

Michael William Hugh "Mike" Vernon (born 20 November 1944) is an English music executive studio owner, and record producer from Harrow, Middlesex.

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Mitch Mitchell

John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 194612 November 2008)In his book about the Experience, Mitchell claimed he celebrated his 21st.

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MLB 11: The Show

MLB 11: The Show is a Major League Baseball video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Sony San Diego.

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Morgan Studios

Morgan Studios, also known as Morgan Sound Studios, were recording studios at 169-171 High Road, Willesden, north west London.

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Mother Focus

Mother Focus is the fifth studio album by the band Focus.

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Musea

Musea Records is a non-profit (for the label's bands) musician-owned French record label dedicated to progressive rock.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Nights in White Satin

"Nights in White Satin" is a song by the Moody Blues, written and composed by Justin Hayward.

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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Olympic Studios

Olympic Studios is an early 20th-century building in Barnes, London, which, after four years of closure, re-opened on 14 October 2013 as the new home for the Olympic Studios cinema.

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Orfeo ed Euridice

(French:; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.

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P. J. Proby

P.J. Proby (born James Marcus Smith, November 6, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Philip Catherine

Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.

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Phonogram Inc.

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

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Pierre van der Linden

Pierre van der Linden, born 19 February 1946 in the Netherlands, is a jazz drummer whose style was influenced by his childhood hero Buddy Rich.

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Pit orchestra

A pit orchestra is a type of orchestra that accompanies performers in musicals, operas, ballets and other shows involving music.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Procol Harum

Procol Harum is an English rock band formed in 1967.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.

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Rainbow Theatre

The Rainbow Theatre, originally known as the Astoria Theatre, is a Grade II*-listed building in Finsbury Park, London.

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Ramses Shaffy

Ramses Shaffy (29 August 1933 – 1 December 2009) was a Dutch singer and actor.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Rembrandtplein

Rembrandtplein (Rembrandt Square) is a major square in central Amsterdam, Netherlands, named after Rembrandt van Rijn who owned a house nearby from 1639 to 1656.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger Dean (artist)

William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher.

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Saxondale

Saxondale is an English television situation comedy programme, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan.

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Seymour Stein

Seymour Stein (born 18 April 1942) is an entrepreneur in the music industry.

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Ship of Memories

Ship of Memories is the sixth album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 1976 on EMI-Bovema.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Sound Techniques

Sound Techniques was a recording studio in Chelsea, London that was operational between 1965 and 1976.

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Steve Coogan

Stephen John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer.

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Steve Smith (musician)

Steven Bruce Smith (born August 21, 1954) is an American drummer best known as a member of the rock band Journey, rejoining the group for the third time in 2015.

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Sylvia (Focus song)

"Sylvia" is a 1972 song by Dutch rock band Focus.

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Terneuzen

Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders.

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Texel

Texel is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,641 in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

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The Focus Family Album

The Focus Family Album is the twelfth studio album by the progressive rock band Focus.

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The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964.

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The Old Grey Whistle Test

The Old Grey Whistle Test (usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) was a British television music show.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Thijs van Leer

Thijs van Leer (pronounced:; born 31 March 1948) is a Dutch musician, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham, in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

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Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English bassist, singer, songwriter, music producer, and recording studio and label owner.

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Ullevaal Stadion

Ullevaal Stadion is an all-seater football stadium located in Oslo, Norway.

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Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records is a record company, which originated in the United Kingdom.

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Victor Spinetti

Vittorio Giorgio Andre "Victor" Spinetti (2 September 1929 – 18 June 2012) was a Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur.

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Wijchen

Wijchen is a municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

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Write the Future

Write the Future is an advert made by Nike football for the 2010 World Cup and directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu for the UK based production company, Independent Films Limited.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(band)

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