One can
only imagine the excitement and the buzz in the music world in the
summer of 1970 as the latest in a long line of 'super groups' announced
itself in the music press.
Denny Laine - pre-Wings but already a name in
the music business from his time in the Moody Blues and his vocals on their first
hit 'Go Now' - got together with two other 'names'.
Well, not exactly
legends, but both Trevor Burton and Alan White had made
their mark. Burton was lead guitarist in The Move, who were still going
in 1970 but now with new guy Jeff Lynne on guitar.
Alan White - before he replaced Bill Bruford in Yes and
before his joint smoking stint with Terry Reid in the Glastonbury Fayre
film - was the third member. Quite rightly surmising that this was a bit of a
laugh and it wouldn't go anywhere, they called themselves 'Balls'.
Could have been worse, I suppose, had Laine decided he was the 'name' in the band - they could have been 'Denny Laine's Balls'.
Anyway, they were right, it didn't go anywhere and Balls went their separate ways at the beginning of 1971.
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