[6] This Quatro's third solo single was released after she moved from the United States to Britain.
In the United States she had already released two singles with all-female band The Pleasure Seekers.
[7] The song "48 Crash" was written and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
[8][9] The song "Little Bitch Blue" was written by Quatro and Len Tuckey[9] and produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.
[10] However, according to the British writer D. J. Taylor, one alternative theory is that, having boasted of their ability to write "a song about anything", Chapman and Chinn were issued with the challenge to come up with a treatment of the 1848 United States economic crisis.