he moved to South Africa, where his career blossomed. Shed Record Label The "Shed" record label was also launched in 1980, offering free studio production time to deserving artists in return for a percentage of any resultant incomes. A publishing company Shed Music (Pvt) Ltd was created to deal with the music rights. Success resided predominantly in two artists, David Scobie, as mentioned before and The Bhundu Boys, though many others including The Rusike Brothers, The Great Witch, and The Real Sounds became household names. Vinyl was pressed and CDs replicated in Zimbabwe under licence to Gramma Records. Norris wrote a song called "Gypsey Girl" for Scobie to record. The released single shot straight up the record sales charts knocking Michael Jackson's "Thriller" off the coveted No 1 position. It was in the charts for 25 weeks, 9 of which were at No 1 position. Subsequently it peaked at No 5 in the South African charts, remaining for 19 weeks. Scobie starred in two South African TV shows on SATV as a result but despite further singles and several albums, his career didn't take off any further. When he left school, however, he joined Shed Studios as a trainee engineer, ultimately becoming a director some years later, and finally leaving to start his own studio "Eibocs". Meanwhile, The Bhundu Boys were also having some success. There were a succession of hit songs locally and several albums from the Bhundus, but in 1985 the studios were approached by Owen Elias and Champion Doug Veitch of Discafrique Records in the UK, with a view to release a selection of African band music in UK. A compilation of The Bhundu Boys and African Herb, an offshoot of Thomas Mapfumo's band, was released, and resulted in interest by the radio DJs John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Charlie Gillett. Shed responded in 1986 by licensing a compilation of Zimbabwean Bhundu Boys hits to Discafrique called "Shabhini", which took the UK world music public by storm. To the studio's disappointment, the band wanted to be released from their second three year contract as they wanted to jump ship to Warner Bros. A deal was made between the Band and Shed Studios where all future royalty income, from existing recordings, would accrue solely to the studio in return from their contractual release. A second compilation of Shed recordings was released by Discafrique called "Tsvimbodzemoto", which also sold