Elvis Costello wants radio stations to stop playing "Oliver's Army"

"Oliver's Army" originally featured on Costello and The Attractions' 1979 album Armed Forces, and while reflecting on the song and its lyrics, Costello revealed he'll no longer play it live, and hopes radio stations won't play the song in future.

Costello told The Telegraph, "If I wrote that song today, maybe I’d think twice about it. That’s what my grandfather was called in the British army - it’s historically a fact - but people hear that word go off like a bell and accuse me of something that I didn’t intend."

"On the last tour, I wrote a new verse about censorship, but what’s the point of that?" Costello continued. "So I’ve decided I’m not going to play it. [Bleeping the word] is a mistake. They’re making it worse by bleeping it for sure. Because they’re highlighting it then. Just don’t play the record!"

He added, "You know what. It [not playing it] would do me a favour, because when I fall under a bus, they’ll play "She", "Good Year For The Roses" and "Oliver’s Army". I’ll die, and they will celebrate my death with two songs I didn’t write. What does that tell you?"

Last week Costello praised Taylor Swift in an interview with Best Fit, "I think we'll all be working for her eventually. She's smart and she knows what she's doing. She can write and sing, and people love it. What's the matter with that?"