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 ...
Started by two Filipino American sisters in California, the influential band is claiming its rightful rank in rock ’n’ roll history. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In historical overviews of women in rock from the ’60s and ’70s, some familiar names are always mentioned, and rightfully so: Janis Joplin, the Runaways, Grace Slick, Heart, Stevie Nicks. A more ...
EXCLUSIVE: David Bowie called them “as important as anybody else who’s ever been, ever.” But for decades the pioneering all-women rock band Fanny was mostly overlooked, despite their huge talent – a ...