DUTCH PRESS-RELEASE April / 1998
FOCUS LIVES AGAINFOCUS has risen from its ashes.
The band that caused a furore in The Netherlands during the seventies, is going back on tour.
Without Jan Akkerman, but with 50-year-old Thijs van Leer.
Substitute of Akkerman is Menno Gootjes, who was not even born when the band was started in 1969. In its heyday jazz-rockband FOCUS sold 5.5 million albums. "House of the King","Sylvia" and other records were big successes. |