It's hard to overstate the importance of Fanny s 1970 debut album. For the first time, a group of women (sisters June and Jean Millington, Alice De Buhr and Nickey Barclay) wrote and sang their own songs, played their own instruments and, perhaps most importantly, rocked just as hard as any male band out there. And, as the first all female band signed to a major label (Reprise) and with superstar producer Richard Perry at the board, these four women became perhaps L.A.'s biggest "buzz band," landing repeated bookings at the Whisky-a-Go-Go with a who s who of rock's glitterati in attendance. But, without a reference point with which to review them, the rock press was less than kind, often dismissing them as a novelty act. Fanny would have to become that reference point, and so they did for the generations of female rockers to come after them, from Joan Jett to Girlschool to Courtney Love and beyond. They were truly the Godmothers of Chick Rock.

Now, Real Gone Music is proud to reissue, for the first time on a stand-alone CD, the self-titled debut release from Fanny, complete with the original gatefold album art and sporting new liner notes from none other than June Millington, whose tales will take you inside the studio and out to the front lines of rock's feminist makeover. Grrl power starts here!

Track Listings
1. Come and Hold Me
2. I Just Realised
3. Candlelighter Man
4. Conversation with a Cop
5. Badge
6. Changing Horses
7. Bitter Wine
8. Take a Message to the Captain
9. It Takes a Lot of Good Lovin'
10. Shade Me
11. Seven Roads

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I learned from Larry Harris's book And Party Every Day that while Fanny is a relatively innocent slang term for butt here in the states, it has a, um different connotation in Britain.

I've heard of not knowing your ass from your elbow, but I wonder how this got changed up when it got over here...

Very good album, by the way. I've got my original LP around somewhere. This is a pick-up for me.