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Focus: How to Make It Without Playing Top 40

Harold Bronson, Rolling Stone, 24 May 1973

LOS ANGELES – "'Hocus Pocus' was done as a parody of rock," said Thijs van Leer, founder of Focus, commenting on his group's hit record.

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