Alice de Buhr likes to say that her all-female band Fanny didn’t quite break the glass ceiling for women in rock ‘n’ roll. But they sure put some mighty big cracks in it. They also paved the way for ...
At the same time, maybe not. The story of Fanny, the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label (Warner Bros.), is told with a good deal of affection and no small amount of spin ...
Decades before Olivia Rodrigo, there was Fanny — an all-women, mostly Filipino American rock band who took the early 1970s by storm. As they rose to fame in the San Francisco music scene, the band ...
Mason City native Alice de Buhr helped change the face of rock music. De Buhr, who will be inducted into the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Music Association Hall of Fame in September, was the drummer for Fanny, ...
Fanny should have entered the history books immediately. They were, as longtime supporter Bonnie Raitt puts it, “the first all-woman rock band that could really play, and really get some credibility ...
The documentary Fanny: The Right to Rock explores how the all-female band, some of whose members were lesbian, never achieved the fame they deserved or were taken seriously. The film directed by Bobbi ...
The pioneering all-female rock band Fanny, which included Mason City native Alice de Buhr, the band's drummer, was among honorees at the sixth annual She Rocks Awards at the House of Blues Anaheim on ...
In the last issue of Rolling Stone produced in the 20th century, a bevy of musicians were asked what musical issues they’d like to see remedied or addressed in the 21st. In a quote that was pulled out ...
Documentary filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart had never heard of Fanny, the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label, when she stumbled onto a biography of lead guitarist June Millington ...
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