John E. Sharpe and The Squires - Maybelline (1966)

Mid 1960s R&B/beat band popular with the white population of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

As John E Sharpe & The Squires they produced one album – ‘Maybelline’ which opened with the cracking ‘Monkey Shine’. The song was also released as a single and is two and a half minutes of rushing, banging, howling, barraging beat sounds that would have the music speed cops after them in a second if such a law enforcement establishment existed. It is psychedelic on speed and has attracted enough international interest to be included on the compilation ‘Let’s Dig ‘Em Up!!!’ series.