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		<title>Feature: Call Collect: An introduction to FOCUS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/140321_focus1-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="Focus - Hard Rock Hell Prog, Pwllheli, 21-22 March 2014" title="Focus - Hard Rock Hell Prog, Pwllheli, 21-22 March 2014" /></a>In their own words, Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman discuss the early days of Focus and their wider success&#8230;and demise in the late 1970s.  This feature is based on interviews in 1990 for a &#8216;Record Collector&#8217; article published in &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-call-collect-an-introduction-to-focus/">Feature: Call Collect: An introduction to FOCUS</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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