Coming Up: Two Classic Albums By Pioneering Female Rockers Fanny Set for Release in New Vinyl Editions

Out Sept. 9. Click the links to pre-order from Amazon.

Details from Real Gone Music:

It’s hard to overstate the importance of Fanny. 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. They were the first all-female band signed to a major label (Reprise)…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 (and have a new documentary, Fanny: The Right to Rock, and a recent New York Times article about them to prove it)! 


Highlighted by such tracks as “Cat Fever,” “Thinking of You” and “Place in the Country,” Fanny’s second album Charity Ball was a quantum leap forward from its groundbreaking, self-titled predecessor, displaying a much more sure-handed lyrical and musical approach. Still, this Real Gone reissue marks the first time Charity Ball has been available on vinyl since its original 1971 release, and we’ve gotten it all dressed up for the ball, with the original album art featuring the cover photo by Candice Bergen and a lyric sheet. Ruby red vinyl pressing limited to 2000 copies!


Then the ladies took things to a whole new level with 1972’s Fanny Hill, recording at Abbey Road with producer Richard Perry and famed Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick (the album includes a Beatles homage with a cover of “Hey Bulldog”). And the result was Fanny’s most varied and ambitious album, sporting a beautiful mix of ballads and rockers and a mature, socially conscious lyrical approach. Pressed in milky clear vinyl complete with original album jacket art and lyric sheet…first time on LP since its original release and limited to 2000 copies!

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