![]() Heavily punctuated with performance clips, the film gives the kind of visual and aural testimony that mere history books cannot. The movie’s thesis is that Fanny showed the way for generations of women and endowed women with the “right to rock.” In other words, to not just be the eye candy, girl singers, and muses, but the artists who compose their songs, master their instruments, and live the rock & roll lifestyle. Fanny: The Right to Rock goes a long way toward resurrecting the band’s memory. “Revivify Fanny,” Bowie went on to say in that Rolling Stone plug. It’s also an informative and memory-buttressing study of a band whose misfortune to never gain vast popular traction has made them seem practically a faded delusion to those of us who did actually hear and buy their music during their heyday. The movie serves as an eye-opening look into one of the most important bands of whom too few people have heard. ![]() Nearly 50 years later, as members of the band reassembled to write, produce, and perform a new album, Fanny Walked the Earth, Bobbi Jo Hart filmed Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about these rock dinosaurs/survivors. ![]() They’re as important as anybody else who’s ever been, ever it just wasn’t their time.” Fanny opened for bands such as Jethro Tull, Humble Pie, and Chicago, and were extolled by David Bowie in Rolling Stone as “one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time, in about 1973. This early Seventies band, anchored by sisters June Millington on guitar and Jean Millington on bass, put out five albums between 19 and had two songs hit the Top 40 during their career. Before girl rock bands became a thing, albeit rare – before the Runaways and the Go-Go’s, before the Indigo Girls and riot grrrls, before Heart, Le Tigre, and Haim – there was Fanny.
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