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"Queen Bitch" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. Bowie was a great Velvet Underground fan, recording a cover of "I'm Waiting for the Man" in 1967 (which still remains unissued, though there is the live version on "Bowie at the Beeb" that immediately follows "Queen Bitch"). This song is a tribute to them and Lou Reed. It starts with Bowie counting down to his acoustic guitar before Mick Ronson's thrashy guitar riff enters. The song's arrangement, featuring a melodic bass line, a tight drum pattern, choppy distorted guitar chords, and an understated vocal performance by Bowie, provided the template for the glam rock style which features prominently on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, his seminal 1972 follow-up to Hunky Dory.

While the main riff is similar to the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", it is actually lifted from Eddie Cochran's Three Steps To Heaven. (a posthumous #1 hit single in the UK in 1960).
The song is featured in the closing credits of Wes Anderson's 'The Life Aquatic' with Steve Zissou as well as on the film's soundtrack.
Queen Bitch is also featured in the critically acclaimed 2008 biographical film 'Milk 'by Gus Van Zant. It is the first song of the film's soundtrack.

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  • He's having so much fun. It makes me wish I had talent like that.

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  • I'm gonna click on his blue guitar owning him for a free beam up into now, 2012!

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  • What's going on here? Why does the base player seam unexcited at the end and no one acknowledges Bowie at the end

  • Good job.

  • @UrAJeW14 -- Thanks pal. Glad to provide some comic relief.

  • @CitySkin09 That was fucking hilarious, kudos my friend.

  • oh man than Bowie pick-up + fuzz box sound. junk sluts

  • Bowie rocks 

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