Yep, long before Sandy came along…
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I had such a crush on Olivia.
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About Earthbound I totally agree with you.
Those of us who took the Melody Maker regarded ourselves as a cut above those with the NME which we considered little better than Jackie.
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I took MM, and thought NME was trash - but never had any thought about the people that read the latter…
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You, me and just about any male over the age of 16!
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I bought that dirty grounghog album as well. !
My parents understood that my musical direction was completely different from what was customary at the time in Israel,
Arranged television broadcasts began only in 1967 and as a result I was exposed to music programs from the “big world”.
One that I remember well, performed a concert by Deep Purple, which was one of the most popular in Israel at the time, with the London Philharmonic.
Needless to say, this was the first record, which I purchased a year and a half later, as a self-gift for my bar mitzvah 
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Believe that its the other way around. Focus 2 came first - which was renamed as Moving Waves, for international release.
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Killer is the first LP I ever bought (used, from a friend) and to me it’s the best from Alice Cooper. But I have lots of respect for Love It To Death, too!
Claude
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You may well be correct, but the LP I bought in '72 was Moving Waves.
Story time: First week at Manchester Uni in Sept '72. Chap from along the corridor in the hall of residence (Grosvenor Place, if anyone knows it) pokes his head around the door and says “Chris, we’re going to the Poly, to see a Dutch band you’ve never heard of, but they’ve got a “sh1t hot” guitarist and a guy that plays flute and yodels”. They played for two hours, then did three or maybe even four encores, and it cost a trivial amount to get in. Later that term they had a hit single (forget which one), and I saw them again at the FTH. Cost four times as much, played for an hour & quarter and did one encore…
Just my ‘research’ on Wikipedia and Discogs…
I remember it as Moving Waves In the UK) … But it was the 70’s…
Good story…!!
Sylvia - maybe?
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In (probably) 71, the DJ who did weekdays in my local music pub (bands On weekend nights) played this odd but very infectios record: Hocus Pocus. That was the first time I heard Focus - and I bought Moving Waves soon after. Pub? But wasn’t I only 17? Well, I’d been a frequent customer since not long after my 16th birthday, and by the late 71 it was my home from home, then I started working in the bar 3 or 4 nights a week, and spending my earnings there the other nights …and had my 18th birthday party there!
Back to Focus, and I saw them a couple of times, probably 72 & 73.
It was a lot easier to blag a job back then
If you were a “big lad” like I was , at 11 (1971) I was working a summer job and earning £24 a week easily for 14 hour days seven days a week !!
When I started working properly…in 1978 after college I was earning a paltry £29 a week
In ‘71 I was 16 and working as a stable hand in Randwick Racecourse. I’d already been out of school for 3 years and home was above the horse stalls and next door to Randwick Girls High School, what else could a 16 year old boy want. By this time I’d already been introduced to lots of vices thankfully most haven’t followed me. I was a big Beatles fan and devastated by their break up, lucky though it opened the door for me to explore other bands/artists.
Pay - $25 a week plus free board and a kick back (if you were lucky) from any owner if your horse had won. Hours 4.00am -10.00am and 2.30pm - 5.00pm daily with every 2nd Sunday off.
Try telling that to kids today and they just won’t believe you.
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Wow brings back memories, my first album was Bachman Turner Overdrives - Four Wheel Drive.
Vinyl