"Hocus Pocus" is a song by the Dutch rock band Focus, written by keyboardist, flutist, and vocalist Thijs van Leer and guitarist Jan Akkerman.

[7] An edited version was released as a single (with "Janis" as the B-side) on the Imperial, Polydor and Blue Horizon labels in Europe in 1971, but failed to chart outside of the Netherlands (NL #9).

Buoyed by a live performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in December 1972 and a subsequent British club tour,[7] the song rose to No.

[11][12] The song was given new life in the new millennium, when it became the musical signature of the Nike "Write the Future" advertising campaign, shown during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

"Hocus Pocus" was described as “the bludgeoning guitar riff… broken up (or held together) by whistles, yodels, flutes and all manner of musical graffiti.” Another reviewer wrote that it amounts to … a modern day 'Teddy Bear’s Picnic' without a let-up”.