Rock Icon Elvis Costello Retires One Of His Biggest Hits Over Racial Epithet

Elvis Costello at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California in October 2021. JC Olivera via Getty Images Singer Elvis Costello says he’ll no longer perform the song “Oliver’s Army” in concert due to a racial epithet in the lyrics and urged radio stations to skip the tune rather than play a censored version. “If I wrote that song today, maybe I’d think twice about it,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said in an interview with The Telegraph. Advertisement The word in question is often used as a slur against Black people. In Costello’s song, however, it’s used against a… Read Full Article