History Music / Fanny

The peculiar thing about Fanny's reputation is that, in the aftermath of their breakup, the band was essentially written out of popular music history. Before the internet, histories of women in popular music tended to leap from the 60s singer-songwriters to punk-era performers such as [[Music/{{Pretenders}} Chrissie Hynde]], [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]], Music/TheSlits and Lydia Lunch. Fanny's albums were generally unavailable even second-hand; no critics saw fit to mention them or recall their work, and the only glimpses to be had of them were the occasional re-broadcast of their few appearances on early 70s TV shows such as Germany's ''Beat-Club''. June Millington worked as a producer and organised a music camp for young girls; Jean Millington worked as a herbalist and married Music/DavidBowie's guitarist Earl Slick; Brie Howard-Darling (her second married name) became a session and touring drummer. The Millingtons occasionally played together, but resisted attempts to revive the band as its own tribute act. Alice de Buhr gave up working as a professional drummer and eventually founded her own video production company; Nickey Barclay ditched her "Nickey" persona and went on working under her real name (Nicole), gigging, writing music for TV and mentoring young musicians, before chronic illness forced her to retire from performing around 2000.

** This also applies to''Rock And Roll Survivors'', as explained under NewSoundAlbum.

* CareerEndingInjury: Shortly after making the ''Fanny Walked The Earth'' album, Jean suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of her body. {{Downplayed}} in that while she did mostly recover, it left her unable to play bass, though she can still sing.

The peculiar thing about Fanny's reputation is that, in the aftermath of their breakup, the band was essentially written out of popular music history. Before the internet, histories of women in popular music tended to leap from the 60s singer-songwriters to punk-era performers such as [[Music/{{Pretenders}} Chrissie Hynde]], [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]], Music/TheSlits and Lydia Lunch. Fanny's albums were generally unavailable even second-hand; no critics saw fit to mention them or recall their work, and the only glimpses to be had of them were the occasional re-broadcast of their few appearances on early 70s TV shows such as Germany's ''Beat-Club''. June Millington worked as a producer and organised a music camp for young girls; Jean Millington worked as a herbalist and married Music/DavidBowie's guitarist Earl Slick; Brie Howard-Darling (her second married name) became a session and touring drummer. The Millingtons occasionally played together, but resisted attempts to revive the band as its own tribute act. Alice de Buhr gave up working as a professional drummer and eventually founded her own video production company; Nickey Barclay ditched her "Nickey" persona and went on working under her real name (Nicole), gigging, writing music for TV and mentoring young musicians, before chronic illness forced her to stop retire from performing around 2000.

* LongHairIsFeminine: During most of the band's existence, Alice, Jean, and June had hair down to their mid-backs which they wors loose and would swing around as they played. Nickey had the shortest hair cut, with only parts of it reaching to her shoulders.

* LongHairIsFeminine: During most of the band's existence, Alison, Jean, and June had hair down to their mid-backs which they wors loose and would swing around as they played. Nickey had the shortest hair cut, with only parts of it reaching to her shoulders.