“I freaked out. I couldn’t believe it. Nobody else was doing that at the time”: The Beatles made the Leslie speaker an iconic guitar tone. But a pioneering “all-female” rock band were one of the first to take it out on the road

Left–Guitarist June Millington performs with Fanny (as The LA Allstars) at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom on June 5, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia; Right–George Harrison performs on stage with Delaney and Bonnie in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 1969. He is playing a 'Rocky' Fender Stratocaster guitar.

In the 1970s, Fanny – led by sisters June and Jean Millington on guitar and bass, respectively – broke the mold as the first all-female band to sign to a major label, Reprise Records – a Warner Bros. Records subsidiary that also housed acts like Jimi Hendrix and Fleetwood Mac.

Their pioneering approach also extended to their gear. June famously incorporated a Leslie speaker into her rig, after her original idea – that of using her Gibson ES-355’s stereo feature – didn’t quite work out.