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Fanny Adams was a briefly existing hard rock super group formed by ex-pat Australians and New Zealanders in mid-1970. [1] The quartet comprised Johnny Dick on drums (ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Doug Parkinson in Focus), Vince Melouney on guitar (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Vince Maloney Sect, Bee Gees), Doug Parkinson on lead vocals and rhythm guitar (ex ...
Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 – 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl who was murdered by a solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Her murder was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom.
The phrase "Sweet Fanny Adams" originated from this case. [51] 1869 Ngataua Omahuru: Māori loyalists New Zealand: 5 Released Omahuru was kidnapped at age five by colonial forces during the battle of Te Ngutu o te Manu. Taken to Whanganui, he was later adopted by William Fox, who later became the Premier of New Zealand. Omahuru was later ...
New Zealand released its list of banned baby names for 2023. The country has strict naming laws. ... AazyahRoyaal, Captain, Isis, JP, Chief, Empress, Pope, Notoriety and Fanny were also rejected ...
The Sweet toured Australia and New Zealand later in 1975, to much success. By the end of 1975, The Sweet had a number of albums in the charts plus two big hit singles, "Peppermint Twist" and "Fox on the Run". "Peppermint Twist" was also an Australian only release, being taken as a single, from the Sweet Fanny Adams album.
Douglas John Parkinson (30 October 1946 – 15 March 2021) [1] was an Australian pop and rock singer. He led the bands Strings and Things/A Sound (1965), the Questions (1966–1968), Doug Parkinson in Focus (1968–1970, 1971), Fanny Adams (1970–1971), the Life Organisation (1973), Southern Star Band (1978–1980) and Doug Parkinson Band (1981–1983).
Desolation Boulevard is the third studio album by the British glam rock band Sweet, originally released in the United Kingdom in November 1974.Two noticeably different versions of the album were released: one by RCA Records in Europe, and another by Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure. The lost story of female rock pioneers ...