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Bruce Springsteen’s beloved song Born In The USA has reportedly been censored on UK radio, with a controversial phrase removed.
The 1984 song, which is considered to critique racism during the Vietman war, contains the phrase ‘yellow man’, considered a derogatory term for an Asian person.
On the track, Springsteen sings: ‘So they put a rifle in my hands, sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man, Born in the USA.’
According to The Sun, Absolute Radio will censor the phrase when the song is played on their station.
Born In The USA is one of Springsteen’s best known songs and portrays a disillusioned Vietnam veteran’s alienation after the war.
The track was ranked 275th on Rolling Stones’ list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.
Bruce Springsteen’s beloved song Born In The USA has reportedly been censored on UK radio, with a controversial phrase removed
The 1984 song, which is considered to critique racism during the Vietman war, contains the phrase ‘yellow man’, considered a derogatory term for an Asian person
Springsteen’s album of the same name has sold over 30 million copies, making it one of the bestselling albums of all time.
Daily Mail has contacted Bauer Media, which owns Absolute Radio, for comment.
The censoring of Born In The USA comes after BBC Radio 2 changed the Spice Girls’ 1997 song Spice Up Your Life which contains the lyric: ‘Yellow man in Timbuktu’.
The station removed the word ‘yellow’ when they played the song.
Last year, Jeremy Allen White starred as Springsteen in the film Deliver Me From Nowhere which follows the singer’s struggles during the conception of his 1982 album Nebraska.
Bruce Springsteen had nothing but good things to say about Jeremy Allen White at a screening of Deliver Me From Nowhere at the New York Film Festival.
The Boss took the stage following the showing of the biopic that details his struggle with depression while crafting the record.
Springsteen publicly praised the award-winning star of The Bear for ‘playing a much better looking version of me.’
Absolute Radio will reportedly censor the phrase when the song is played on their station
Springsteen’s album of the same name has sold over 30 million copies, making it one of the bestselling albums of all time
He added: ‘I spent my life on the road, moving around the world as kind of a musical ambassador for America, you know … trying to measure the distance between American reality, where we’ve often fallen short of our ideals.
‘But for a lot of folks out there, she continues to be a land of hope and dreams, not of fear or divisiveness or government censorship or hatred.’
The movie was directed by Scott Cooper and also features Succession star Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s longtime manager and co-producer Jon Landau.
Springsteen told TIME he felt the film’s director Scott Cooper – who penned the biopic based on Warren Zanes’ book – had a daunting task in depicting his battle with depression on the silver screen.
The film ‘could have gone in a lot of different directions’ in terms of his depression battles, he shared.
Springsteen said he had thought of taking his own life in 1982 after his album Nebraska was released, though his manager Landau intervened and suggested he get ‘professional help.’
The advice ‘was and has been a total life changer,’ Springsteen said.
