It's hard to overstate the importance of Fanny's self-titled debut album from 1970. For the first time, a group of women (sisters June and Jean Millington, Alice De Buhr and Nickey Barclay) were writing and singing their own songs, playing their own instruments and, perhaps most importantly, rocking as hard as any male band out there. And as the first all-female band signed to a major label (Reprise) and fronted by superstar producer Richard Perry, these four women became perhaps L.A.'s biggest "buzz band," booked time and again at the Whisky-a-Go-Go, hosting the who's who of the rock glitterati. Fanny became a reference point for generations of female rockers who came after them, from Joan Jett to Girlschool to Courtney Love and beyond. They really were the godmothers of chick rock.