June 1972. The song "Fight For My Country" was an anti-war anthem composed and sung by Burton, and included backing vocals from Steve Gibbons and Denny Laine, who played bass guitar on the track. Burton guested on bass guitar with Crushed Butler in 1970 and cut twelve studio recordings with the group intended for release on Tony Secunda's Wizard record label. Shortly thereafter, Burton guested on rhythm guitar with the Pink Fairies between August 1971 to July 1972, staying with the band long enough to appear on a BBC live session and two songs from their second album entitled What a Bunch of Sweeties. He also worked with Birmingham vocalist Raymond Froggatt until 1975. After Balls, Steve Gibbons joined the Birmingham group The Idle Race which eventually became the Steve Gibbons Band. Burton joined in April 1975, and the group enjoyed a hit single in 1977 with the Chuck Berry song, "Tulane" as well as touring America extensively. Burton left Steve Gibbons in 1983 to form his own band. They started performing twice weekly at the Red Lion in Balsall Heath, Birmingham with a line-up including sax player Steve Ajao. In 1985 the band recorded an album entitled Double Zero (BARLP1), now a collectors item, featuring Stuart Ford (slide guitar), Crumpy (bass), Tony Baylis (drums) and Ben Annon (percussion). The band has gone through a number of iterations, and at one point included former Uglys/Balls/Move/Electric Light Orchestra keyboardist Richard Tandy. By 1993, Trevor was joined by Maz Mitrenko on lead guitar and later by drummer, Bill Jefferson and bass player, Pez Connor. Former Move drummer Bev Bevan had been touring as "Bev Bevan's Move" since 2004, augmented on occasion by Trevor Burton. Burton joined permanently in 2007 and the Autumn 2007 tour was billed as "The Move featuring Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan". On 20 April 2018, Burton released his first solo acoustic record, Long Play, on Gray Sky Records. The record includes songs written by Burton as well as acoustic renditions of songs by critical modern song writers such as John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, Vic Chesnutt, Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. References 1944 births Living people Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands English rock guitarists The Move members English blues guitarists English male guitarists English rock bass guitarists Male bass guitarists Rhythm guitarists Lead guitarists English male singers The Idle Race members