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The band from Munich, Germany, started in 1973, called themselves intermittent "Teen Quo Vadis". Their first official concert took place in 1976 at the then famous Rigan Club in Munich. They started to work professionally in 1979, calling themselves U-Bahnschacht for a short time, just to change the name finally to United Balls. In 1980 Jörg Evers heard them in the Rigan Club and after that finanzed a demo recording of 4 tracks including a first version of their later hit "Pogo In Togo". Their first 45 United Balls - Seemann was released on TTR in 1981. They had big succes during the "Neue Deutsche Welle" in Germany, even when they did not play typical NDW. After two LPs, mostly in German language, they released their third album, United Balls - Hobo, in 1989 with all track sung in English. Short after they disbanded. Since 1999 their were several rumours for a reunion, which finally took place in 2010 in the original lineup and resulted in a fourth album, Maybe Tomorrow But Better Tonight released at the end of 2011. current lineup: Harry Kulzer (bass, vocals) Gabriel Laszlo (drums, vocals) Horst Lindhofer (guitars, vocals)
United Balls are a Munich, Germany based band that formed in the mid-1970s as part of the German punk/NDW scene.
The bandmates met at the Munich Gisela Gymnasium in the mid seventies. The naming process was difficult at first - “Teen Quo Vadis”, inspired then by the current building mania “U-Bahn-Schacht”. Soon the group abbreviated the name to “UBS”. The desire for an English name lead the band to call themselves “United Balls”.
After the first successful live performances at the Rigan Schwabinger Club in 1980, United Balls relaeased the song “Pogo In Togo”, produced by former musician Jörg Evers. It reached Number #1 in Germany and charted in Australia and New Zealand. In 1993, the band, the band tried their hand at English language guitar pop. In 2005, the band returned to the stage with the original band members at a gig in Munich. They released a total of 3 studio albums: “Pogo in Togo” (1981), “Lieder fremder Völker” (1983) and “Hobo” (1986).