Live At The Priory 1997 (Akkernet 1998).10000 Clowns On A Rainy Day - Live 2CD (Patio Music 1997).Focus (With Thijs Van Leer) (Vertigo, 1985).It Could Happen to You ( Polydor, 1982).Transparental (With Kaz Lux) ( Ariola, 1980).Live In Kiel & Stuttgart 1979 (With Joachim Kühn)(Sandra Music Productions 1979).Aranjuez (With Claus Ogerman) (CBS, 1978).In 2013, Akkerman released the album North Sea Jazz. He wrote for the Dutch magazine GitaarPlus. In the late 1990s, after an absence of nearly 20 years, he was persuaded to tour the UK again. In 1992, he was involved in a serious car accident, but he resumed playing in 1993. During the 1990s and in the 2000s he continued playing with his own band, and also as a solo musician, accompanied by pre-recorded computer-generated background (Roland synthesizers and Linn drums).Īkkerman was a session musician with André Hazes and worked with Alan Price, Herman Brood, Peter Banks, Jack Bruce, Charlie Byrd, Phil Collins, Paco de Lucía, Ice-T, and B.B. The band reunited again in 1990 for the Dutch television program Goud van Oud ( Old Gold). In 1985, he reunited Focus with Van Leer for an album and accompanying concert. In the early 1980s he began to experiment with a guitar synthesizer, as on the album Oil in the Family. On the album, Akkerman experimented with a 12-string guitar tuned in parallel fifths. His concept album Eli, recorded with Kaz Lux on vocals, won the Dutch Edison Award for best album in 1976. Ītlantic released his solo album Tabernakel, which contains his playing the lute. With manufacturer Framus he helped produce one of the first signature guitar models. In 1973 Akkerman was voted Best Guitarist in the World by readers of the UK magazine Melody Maker. The band's albums Focus II and Focus 3 were certified Gold. Under the name Focus, the band explored progressive rock, an amalgam of classical, jazz, and rock music, and had hits in the seventies such as "Hocus Pocus" and " Sylvia". Īkkerman joined the Thijs van Leer Trio in late 1969 which, as the nascent band Focus, was the pit band for the Dutch theatrical production of Hair (recorded as an album in 1969). He started the band Brainbox with Van der Linden, Kaz Lux, and André Reijnen. After seeing a performance by classical guitarist Julian Bream, he became interested in renaissance music and the lute. Akkerman won a scholarship to study at the Amsterdam Music Lyceum for five years, developing his composition and arranging skills.Īt fourteen he was in the rock band Johnny and his Cellar Rockers with his friend Pierre van der Linden. Around age ten he took guitar lessons and his first single, with the Friendship Sextet, was released in 1960, when he was thirteen years old. He started playing the accordion before turning to the guitar. The son of a scrap iron trader, Akkerman was born in Amsterdam. After leaving Focus, he continued as a solo musician, adding jazz fusion influences.īiography Akkerman performing on Dutch television ( AVRO's TopPop) in 1974 He first found international commercial success with the band Focus, which he co-founded with Thijs van Leer. 48.Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist. That year the single re-entered the UK charts at No. The song was given new life when it became the musical signature of the Nike Write the Future advertising campaign, shown during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 18 in Canada during the spring and summer of that year. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of June 2 and 9 in the US and No. "Hocus Pocus" was also released as a single on the Sire Records label in the United States and Canada in 1973. 20 on the UK charts in late January 1973. Buoyed by a live performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in December 1972 and a subsequent barnstorming British club tour, this version rose to No. ▼ "Hocus Pocus"ģ:25 (re-recording: "Hocus Pocus 2", "Hocus Pocus II")Ī faster re-recording of the song (titled "Hocus Pocus 2" or "Hocus Pocus II" in some markets) was released in Europe in 1972. Quick facts: "Hocus Pocus", Single by Focus, from the albu.
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