Linda McCartney of the Beatles in 1970, Paul taught Linda to play keyboards and recorded an album with her, "Ram", as a duo. The couple formed the band Wings. They garnered several Grammy Awards, becoming one of the most successful British bands of the 1970s, but had to endure jibes regarding Linda's singing. She later said that criticisms that she sang out of tune in the early days with Wings were true. In 1977, a reggae-inspired single titled "Seaside Woman" was released by an obscure band called Suzy and the Red Stripes on Epic Records in the United States. Suzy and the
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