AllSongsList began in 1984 when I started collecting any info and item about Elton John. It was quite difficult those days to find something about his music, thank God to fanzines like Hercules and specially East End Lights. Masters like Bernardin, Turano, Rosenthal, Hayward, Higgins, ... some of them I got the chance to meet in person. And in 2007, I began this non-profit blogsite, used only for entertainment, with no affiliation to Elton John's oficial one only to share our passion: Elton John
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8 Apr 2008
The Story Behind "The Bitch Is Back"
Bernie revealed that his then wife Maxine coined the song’s recurring phrase in response to one of Elton’s notoriously bad moods “Oh God! The bitch is back” and the song was born. The line “I can bitch cause I am better than you” is a piece of self-analyzation, relating one of Elton’s frequent temperamental “bad momentos”.
Some segments of the gay community, have taken the song as a signal of his sexuality. Recently was prohibited by government Bush to receive radio airplay due to unappropiated words.
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