Sharp were a mid 1980s English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band, featuring former Jam

The Jam

The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...

 members Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.-Biography:...

 and Rick Buckler

Rick Buckler

Rick Buckler , is the former drummer of The Jam, an English rock band that enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from 1977 until disbanding in 1982...

. They released one single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

.

Career

After The Jam split, Foxton pursued a solo career and Buckler formed Time UK

Time UK (band)

Time UK were a mid 1980s English rock band, featuring former Jam drummer Rick Buckler. They released three singles.-Personnel:*Rick Buckler *Jimmy Edwards *Danny Kustow *Ray Simone...

, featuring Jimmy Edwards on vocals. After a stop-start career that took over two years to release three singles, and a rapid dwindling of the initial public interest in the band, they effectively split up.

Foxton, finding his solo career had followed a similar path to Time UK's, recorded several tracks with Buckler and Edwards. A solitary single, "Entertain Me", was released on UK mod record label

Record label

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, Unicorn in 1986.

Tracks from the release were included on a 2002 Time UK compilation album

Compilation album

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, One More Time.

Discography

• "Entertain Me" / "So Say Hurrah" (7 inch, Unicorn PHZ5), 1986
• "Entertain Me" / "So Say Hurrah" / "Next Generation" (12 inch, Unicorn 12PHZ5), 1986

• One More Time (Time UK compilation album, Detour DRCD041), 2002