Breitbart Elvis Costello is campaigning for radio stations to ban airing his 1979 hit, “Oliver’s Army,” over its contemporary usage of the N-word.
The song, which first appeared on the album Armed Forces, features the line, “Only takes one itchy trigger/One more widow, one less white ni**er.”
Though the song is one of Costello’s biggest UK hits — it peaked at number two on the UK charts — and is a critique of the British Army for targeting recruitment among the ranks of the lower classes in the 1970s, its use of the N-word has become controversial in recent years. The N-word in the song refers to how upper class Brits often referred to Irish and other lower class citizen soldiers at the time…
