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Donald Trump drops Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World as campaign song

A press secretary for the real estate mogul said Wednesday that the U.S. Republican nomination candidate would respect the wishes of Canadian rocker Neil Young.

Canadian musician said the song was played without his permission

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This composite shows U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump and Canadian folk rocker and activist Neil Young. Trump will find another campaign song after Young said Rockin' In the Free World' was used without his permission. (Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty, Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images)

Donald Trump has decided to find another campaign song.

A press secretary for the real estate mogul said Wednesday that Trump would respect the wishes of Neil Young and no longer use Rockin' In the Free World, which Trump featured Tuesday during his announcement that he was seeking the Republican Party's nomination for president.

Young, a Canadian who supports liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders, had objected and said the song was played without his permission. Rockin' In the Free World, released in the late 1980s, is a scathing condemnation of war and poverty that criticizes then-President George H.W. Bush, a Republican.

Trump press secretary Hope Hicks said Wednesday that "despite Neil's differing political views, Mr. Trump likes Neil very much."

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