Fanny: The Right to Rock

Product Description Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to release an LP with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). Despite releasing 5 critically-acclaimed albums over 5 years, touring with famed bands from Slade to Chicago and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny's groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history... until bandmates reunite 50 years later with a new rock record deal. With incredible archival footage of the band's rocking past intercut with it's next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways' Cherie Currie, Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The B52's Kate Pierson, Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame. Review It’s a vivid look at artists who remained entirely themselves throughout their careers. And they rock. --Norman Wilner, Now Toronto Fanny: The Right to Rock remains thoroughly engaging thanks to the demonstrable talent and brassy forthrightness of its central personalities. There’s no whiff of “nostalgia act” to their current music ― these women are born rock lifers who clearly never stopped evolving creatively, even if the hoped-for commercial rewards never quite arrived. --Dennis Harvey, Variety Intense hard rock. Searing guitar solos. Serious strutting on stage with no sexual posturing. These aren’t things you often associate with female musicians. So props to Bobbi Jo Hart, whose documentary Fanny: The Right to Rock puts the spotlight on the groundbreaking all-women rock group that too few people have ever heard of. Credit racism, sexism and homophobia to consigning this outfit of excellent musicians, the first women’s band to secure a record deal with a major label, to near oblivion. --Susan G. Cole, POV Magazine
ASIN: B0B5LVYS83
VSKU: DBV.B0B5LVYS83.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Jean Millington|Brie Darling|June Millington|Alice de Buhr|Joe Elliott|Nickey Barclay|Patti Quatro|Todd Rundgren|Bonnie Raitt|Kathy Valentine|Kate Pierson|Cherie Currie|John Sebastian|Linda Wolf|Bobbi Jo Hart
Binding: Dvd
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