Please be aware this site is a tribute to Fanny Adams, and is not run by any of the former members of the band. The purpose of this site is to make their music available for their former fans, and people that never had the good fortune to ever hear them before, or own their one fantastic album produced in 1971.
This is a short summary of the band:Doug Parkinson opens up his mouth with a voice that is sweet and soulful, resonating in a way that few contemoraries can match. In 1968 he formed a group called Doug Parkinson In Focus which was a musician's musians outfit of the time. The band would later prove to be the benchmark in Australian rock folklore. They cut three singles that hit the top of the charts in Australia, but soon got caught up in the casuality of the notorious Record Ban which denied Australian artists airplay.In 1970 Parkinson moved to London with a new band Fanny Adams.
They put together a set of strong original material, and cut the album in London, although it was not evenutally released until 1971, just after they had split. They returned to Australia in December 1970 amid a welter of hype. Boasting that they would become the biggest band in the world immediately, the band encountered resistance from a sceptical public, a situation not alleviated by Doug's boast to Go-Set that "In three weeks Fanny Adams will be the best band that ever trod this earth". Perhaps it was simply a case of being an idea before its time. In the event, their brand of heavy, plodding blues-prog rock was (so we're told) upstaged by their support bands at the time, aparently making a mockery of the group's claims.According to Ian McFarlane, tensions within the band ran high, as one might expect of such an all-star outing. They made some notable appearances, including the Myponga Festival in January 1971, and early in the year MCA released one single from the album, Got To Get A Message To You (which was a group original, not the Bee Gees song of the name) backed by They're All Losers, Honey. But within months of arriving back, the band had self-destructed. The straw that broke the camel's back was a fire at Sydney's Caesar's Palace discotheque, which destroyed all their equipment. Parkinson left under a cloud, and MCA were sufficiently cheesed off with Doug that they effectively embargoed him from recording for the next two years.
The album had a very limited number of 1000 copies released in the USA under the Kapp label, then a division of MCA that no longer exists.This album has become a very rare item to find for collectors, but well worth the search.Doug Parkinson left to revive Doug Parkinson In Focus. The flip side of their 45 had been listed on the album credits, but didn't appear on the actual album. The album is full of heavy progressive blues numbers and crunching guitar riffs. Despite turmoil within the group, the album was a very worthwhile release, and fantsatic find for anyone lucky enough to come across it.
There may a bit of luck in finding this album remastered on cd at the following website:
http://www.freakemporium.com/site/artist/Fanny%20Adams/artis
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