Hocus Pocus is one of the most ridiculous hits a rock band could hope to have. The song is a largely instrumental number by Dutch prog band Focus. Over the course of it's six and half minutes the song will rock, delight and confuse the hell out of you in appropriately equal measures. It's almost impossible to know where to begin. The song was unleashed on the world in 1971 from the album Focus II. The main refrain of the song is an increasingly ferocious hard rock line complete with wailing million-notes-a-second guitar solos and bass runs. Then just as you're getting comfortable the ethereal yodelling begins to fill your ears, expanding ever outwards like an Alpine balloon before it explodes in a rain of razor sharp guitar strings and grenade drums.
This doesn't even begin to touch on the jazz flutes, the accordions, the knee slapping munchkin gurgles. It's the ultimate 'And that's not all!' song.
Many are eager to see the magic and mayhem of the witch sisters. There will be new faces in Hocus Pocus 2 alongside the Sanderson sisters.
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