June Millington

Back in 1969, when June Millington began her career as lead guitarist for Fanny -- a mainstream all-female band -- she recognized that mainstream music was largely inaccessible to women. During the five years in the 1970s when Fanny were active, few women had made significant mainstream rock recordings. Through four successful albums with Warner Bros. (Fanny, Charity Ball, Fanny Hill, and Mother's Pride), June Millington and Fanny served notice to the rock world that women could do more than simply sing: that women could also write and play rock & roll passionately. Yet there ...