Regular music venues for The Dominettes in the early 1960s were the Grotto Club on Bromsgrove Street, and The Sicilia Coffee Bar in Edgbaston.

Another regular venue for the Dominettes was the Firebird Jazz Club on Carrs Lane in central Birmingham and the group posted advertisements which read "anything considered".

The single was advanced for its time and featured some socially conscious lyrics – very unlike the kind of material produced by most other pop groups of the period.

[3] John Gordon left in 1965, and was replaced by Jimmy O'Neill from a local band called The Yamps (he had also spent some time with The Walker Brothers).

Other Ugly's singles were released between 1965 and 1967 including a cover version of "End of the Season", a song composed by Ray Davies.

He was replaced by Dave Morgan from a local band called Blaises, and had also been a former member of Danny King's Mayfair Set.

Jimmy O'Neill left the Ugly's in 1968 to join The Mindbenders and founding member Jim Holden also departed later that year.

[4] Gibbons teamed up with guitarist Trevor Burton from The Move in 1969 and, by April of that year, they had formed a new group called Balls, along with singer/guitarist Denny Laine (formerly of the Moody Blues), and Ugly's' drummer Keith Smart.

This led to the Steve Gibbons Band joining the Who's management stable and recording their first Polydor album Any Road Up in 1975 (With John Entwistle of the Who playing on a few tracks).

Playing the concert arenas, they shared the stage with Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Light Orchestra, The J. Geils Band, Rufus, and Nils Lofgren.

In 1977 their second album, Rollin' On included their biggest hit single, "Tulane", a cover of a Chuck Berry song, produced by Kenny Laguna.

[8] In 1981, after a further change in personnel, Trevor Burton now on guitar, PJ Wright guitar, Derek Wood bass and Alan "Sticky" Wickett drums, Steve Gibbons Band recorded Saints & Sinners for RCA,[1] and later responded to an invitation from the German Democratic Republic to become one of the first western rock bands to tour the major cities of East Germany in 1982.