Seaside Woman 1974 interview with Linda, she wrote the song during a McCartney family visit to Jamaica in 1971 "when ATV was suing us saying I was incapable of writing, so Paul said, 'Get out and write a song.'" The lawsuit, which alleged that Linda's co-writing credits were inauthentic and that she was not a real songwriter, was "amicably settled," according to an ATV spokesman, in June 1972. Wings first performed "Seaside Woman" during the Wings University Tour in February 1972. On July 14, during their Wings Over Europe Tour, a show in France was cancelled, so the band recorded an early
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is considered symbolic of the Russian Civil War in Western publications. A simplified version lacking the smaller details is used by the Peacekeepers in the television series "Farscape". The "Slabinja Monument" to the fallen fighters and victims of WWII fascism from Slabinja, Croatia, seems to be directly inspired by this poster. English doom metal band Witchfinder General employ the red wedge motif in the artwork accompanying their 1982 EP "Soviet Invasion", and The Wake used the artwork for their twelve-inch single "Something Outside" in 1983. A similar simplified version (rotated 1/4 turn clockwise) was appropriated by the German post-punk band