album Songs of Love and War was a chronicle of his early life. Tholet became a good friend of the studios and brought a significant body of his Ad Agency - Matthewman, Banks and Tholet's advertising work to it in the following years, as well as numerous privately produced songs, albums and film tracks. But the other ad agencies soon started bringing their work to the studios too, and some classic pieces were written and recorded by Roskilly and Norris. Whilst Norris played guitar, bass guitar and sang vocals, Roskilly played keyboards and wrote arrangements for orchestral instruments. A small number of regular session players evolved. Ace drummer, Bothwell Nyamhondera was offered a full time position as resident drummer and trainee engineer. A second studio was built, and Nyamhondera was encouraged to find deserving artists when not actually in the studios playing drums. These were probably the most adventurous years for jingles and would be rewarded in 1982, when Shed Studios was presented with the coveted Advertising Association of Zimbabwe 'Premier Award'. In 1980, as the country became Zimbabwe, the studios set about finding new talent. A newspaper advertisement had 30 hopeful artists patiently waiting their turn at audition, and whilst most were more hopeful than talented, a few stood out head and shoulders above the rest. Some would go on to become regular vocalists on jingles whilst others would come back with songs to record for disc release. A very exciting time for all concerned. Norris wrote a jingle for the travel agency - Musgrove and Watson, as commissioned by Nick Alexander, a copywriter for Matthewman, Banks and Tholet, but sadly had to leave for yet another call-up stint. Roskilly was left to do the arrangement and production work, and asked David Scobie, a 15-year-old with a very mature Neil Diamond sound-alike voice, to sing the lead part. It was a great combination of efforts and the jingle went on to win an award for best jingle at the following AAZ Awards, and started a relationship with the young singer that lasted many years. Another great friend of the studio was the Zimbabwean guitarist Louis Mhlanga. He was a regular visitor to the studios, adding guitar parts to advertising works, and as session musician on a variety of albums. His last major work under his own name was the album 'Mukai' and with Jethro Shasha 'Musik Ye Africa', before