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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 ...

There’s a particular thrill to seeing an older woman with a head of unruly white hair shred guitar. That glorious, all-too-rare sight occurs in the first moments of the 2021 documentary Fanny: The ...

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 ...

Before Sleater-Kinney, Destiny’s Child, The Breeders, The Chicks, The Go-Gos and The Runaways, there was Fanny. The first all-women rock band to sign with a major American record label, Fanny made ...

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 ...

For musicians, nothing is stronger than the bond between performer and audience. It's an intangible joy that makes a live concert experience unlike any other, and it's what brought Kansas City, Mo.

There was a time when a woman stepped on stage in front of a rock audience at her own peril. “When you’re a woman in rock, you’re regarded as a freak — it’s hard on the ego,” Jean Millington of Fanny, ...

When Deep Purple didn’t show up for a gig once in Ohio in the early Seventies, opening act Fanny went on in their place. “And slammed,” recalls guitarist June Millington. “No one left, which impressed ...

April 14, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA - The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)and PBS announced the May 22nd broadcast premiere and streaming launch for the critically-acclaimed documentary FANNY: THE ...