Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   ELTON JOHN:  THE BITCH IS BACK by Mark Bego Published by Phoenix Books     In a career spanning five decades, Elton John has proved he can do it all in the world of popular music. He is a true legend.  Best-selling celebrity biographer MARK BEGO surveys the life and career of the glittering pop star in his 52nd book Elton John:  The Bitch Is Back, published by Phoenix Books.   Until now, no book published has successfully captured his passion and outlandishness or the truth behind his complex private life. Previous books have handled his life with kid gloves, nearly making him into a tasteful 21st Century George Gershwin. In reality, Elton’s life more closely parallels that of Oscar Wilde. He has been wild, glitzy, boozy, bawdy and unconventional. And it is his big personality and grand gestures, as well as his tremendous talent that mesmerizes his millions of worldwide followers.   According to the author, “I am really excited about this new book, and I know that Elton’s fans will be as well.” Bego has rounded up a fascinating group of interview subjects for his Elton biography.  “I specifically wanted to talk to people who personally know Elton, and who are not usually interviewed for Elton John books,” he explains.  “These people’s insights into Elton make this quite exciting.  Researching this book I interviewed Alice Cooper, Billy Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Mary Wilson of The Supremes, Angela Bowie, Sarah Dash of LaBelle, Randy Jones of the Village People, Duncan Faure of The Bay City Rollers, and Gary Brooker of Procol Harum.  I also received some great stories from Danny Hutton and Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night.  A lot of people don't realize that it was Three Dog Night who recorded the song that became America’s first exposure to Elton's music, via their recording of ‘Lady Samantha.’  One of my most fun interviews was with the totally colorful and outrageous RuPaul. And, those are just some of the rock & roll figures quoted in the book! There are many more.”   Elton John:  The Bitch Is Back is the book that every Elton John fan has been waiting for. It is filled with all of the addictions, the self-doubts, bad toupées, affairs and scandals—but also with the triumphant later years, the coming-to-terms with his sexuality and the establishment of a happy and healthy private life.   Elton John:  The Bitch Is Back debuted in Germany in June of 2009, where it was an instant hit with the press.  Music Headquarters magazine claims, “Author Mark Bego, who has already written biographies of stars such as Billy Joel, Whitney Houston and Bette Midler, throws a deep view in lives and work of the exceptional artist. For that simply, Elton John—The Story as his tome is called, dedicates itself to Bego all facets of the musician’s life and naturally—also the private life.”   Rolling Stone in Germany reports:  “More than 50 biographies about Rock, Pop, Country, film and otherwise-which stars, has Mark Bego already written…the case of Elton John is part of history…Complex one, Successes, Bulimia, Sex escapades, Drugs, Attempted suicides, Family discord, Hair transplantation—Bego omits nothing.”               According to Männer magazine, “The ‘Star Bio Count’ Mark Bego!...Mark Bego has the ‘Queen Mum of Pop’ with its ultimate...a true work of love...[a] simultaneously exciting history of pop culture and pop music of the ’70s.”   Westfälischer Anzeiger’s column “People Today” writes, “Only once he becomes acquainted with him completely in person, shortly before getting dressed in the Madison Square Garden. Mark Bego fills his opulent biography about Elton John from interviews, quotations and eye-witness accounts. With old book meticulousness the author presents chronologically each album, collects criticisms and hit parade placements or notes from the accurate incomes of countless tours. The extremely iridescent life of the ‘Rocket Man’ supplies spectacular material.”   According to Bego, “Writing this book on Sir Elton was really an adventure for me. In the 1980s I met Elton, backstage in his dressing room at Madison Square Garden.  I was there with Andy Warhol and a group of friends.  It was truly a memorable and outrageous evening, ending up with Elton onstage for the show’s finale in full drag AS ‘Tina Turner.’ Obviously, that wild episode is part of the book.”               Says Bego, “I am really proud of Elton John: The Bitch Is Back.  It is a fun romp through Elton’s wild life and career, and it is filled with material that is not available anywhere else.”   Mark Bego is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Chicago Tribune bestseller. He is widely acknowledged as one of the best biographers in the rock and pop music field.     *                      *                      *   To interview Mark Bego, or for a review copy of the book, please contact Brian Gross, BSG PR, (818) 340-4422 x202. Email: brian@bsgpr.com. 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