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[2] It has been featured on the 2001 documentary DVD Wingspan and Paul McCartney and Wings' 1974 TV special One Hand Clapping.

[3] The song was referenced in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Glamorama, driving a group of fictional supermodels to extreme terrorist acts.

It continues the album's theme of escape by describing the singer achieving artistic freedom through love.

[5] Author Andrew Grant Jackson calls the lyrics "gibberish" and mere placeholders for the excitement and "cinematic purpose" of the music.

[8] On 25 June 2022, a week after his 80th birthday, he performed the song as part of his Saturday night headline act, on the Pyramid stage, at the Glastonbury Festival.

In 2016, German producer Timo Maas and Canadian DJ James Teej released a remix of the track with McCartney's approval.