Live at the BBC (Focus album)

Live at the BBC
Live album by Focus
Released	2004
Genre	Progressive rock, instrumental rock
Length	62:22
Label	Hux Records
Focus chronology
Focus 8 (2002) Live at the BBC (2004) Focus 9 / New Skin (2006)

Live at the BBC is a live album by the Dutch progressive rock group Focus, recorded on 21 March 1976, and broadcast on Radio 1 in the BBC Concert Series, but released only in 2004 by Hux Records, in CD format. ^[1]

The album was recorded just weeks after Jan Akkerman had left the band, and a new guitarist, Philip Catherine had been brought in. According to the Allmusic review, "although the sound quality is very good, the music doesn’t only suffer from Akkerman's absence; it’s also about half-comprised of boring, laid-back, instrumental jazz-funk fusion." ^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Virtuous Woman"	Thijs van Leer	10:58
2.	"Blues in D"	Bert Ruiter	3:46
3.	"Maximum"	van Leer	14:00
4.	"Sneezing Bull"	Philip Catherine	4:46
5.	"Sonata for Flute"	J.S. Bach, arranged by van Leer	2:47
6.	"House of the King"	Jan Akkerman, Flynn	3:15
7.	"Angel Wings"	Catherine	5:38
8.	"Little Sister/What You See"	van Leer	8:18
9.	"Hocus Pocus"	Akkerman, van Leer	5:48
Total length:			62:22

Personnel

Focus

• Thijs van Leer – keyboards, flute, vocals
• Philip Catherine – guitar
• Bert Ruiter – bass
• David Kemper – drums

References

1. "Focus – Live At The BBC". Discogs. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
2. Unterberger, Richie. "Focus: Live at the BBC". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.