Finally, Fanny are getting their due - and it only took a little more than 50 years. That same year, Fanny were honored at the She Rocks Awards, and now a Fanny documentary, Fanny: The Right to Rock, has been released. Society was not ready to accept us on that level yet.”īut society has changed, thankfully, and in 2018 the Millington sisters and drummer Brie Howard, reunited as the defiantly rebranded Fanny Walked the Earth, release the first Fanny album since 1974. “I think it’s because we were trying to do intelligent rock. We were so good, and we worked so hard, and we were on the road all the time,” says June Millington, who at age 16 - with the help of enlightened parents who drove her to gigs and bought her electric guitars - founded the proto-Fanny band the Svelts with her bass-playing younger sister Jean in 1964. “I’ve been trying to figure out all these years what happened.
29 hit “Butter Boy,” in 1975).įanny, in fact, released five major-label LPs, with varying all-female lineups, and they worked with and/or received accolades from David Bowie, John Lennon, George Harrison, Lowell George, Sly Stone, and Bonnie Raitt - yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure. The Bay Area psych/folk/hard rockers rarely receive proper credit for their contributions to rock ’n’ roll - which is puzzling, since they were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and the first to score a top 40 single (“Charity Ball” in 1971, followed by another, the No. A more unfamiliar name, however, is Fanny. 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.
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