There is also an important story about a lyric change. The line “If you want me off your back” was originally the much more sexually charged phrase “On your front or on your back.” In April 1982, the great producer Glyn Johns was brought in during the Combat Rock process to cut the album down, tighten it up, and make it more mainstream friendly so it could function as a cleaner single LP. Besides cutting sections from songs, he also insisted that Mick Jones re record that line, because he feared American radio stations would not touch a song with such an openly sexual implication