London Town (Wings album) of 1976, with "Wings at the Speed of Sound" and the well-received Wings Over the World tour, Wings' leader Paul McCartney planned on making 1977 a similar year. In February, Wings began recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios, which continued until the end of March. Wings recorded five songs there: "Girls' School", "Name and Address", "London Town", "Children, Children" and Linda McCartney's "B-Side to Seaside". The latter was issued as the flip-side of the Wings single "Seaside Woman" (issued under the name "Suzy and the Red Stripes"). The initial plan that Wings would tour in the US once more was
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