Effective period / Period of releases: 1971

Members: Alan White, Steve Gibbons, Mike Kellie, Dave Morgan (2), Trevor Burton, Keith Smart, Brian Frederick Hines

The band was formed in 1969.
Trevor Burton teamed up with Steve Gibbons who fronted the long-established Birmingham group The Ugly's. Burton and Gibbons, along with Uglys' rhythm section Keith Smart and Dave Morgan (2), plus the keyboardist Richard Tandy created a new Birmingham supergroup to be named Balls. Morgan left the band during the summer of 1969, to be replaced by Denny Laine, ex-singer/guitarist of Moody Blues. But Balls split at the end of 1969 and reconvened as a quartet the following summer, with Laine, Burton, former The Plastic Ono Band drummer Alan White and vocalist Jackie Lomax. Lomax was soon replaced by the returning Gibbons, and ex-Spooky Tooth drummer Mike Kellie replaced White in January 1971