[2][3] On 1 June 1981, the single was awarded a silver certification by the BPI in the UK for sales of over 250,000 units.

[4] In 2001, British folk metal group Skyclad released the song as their second true single (after 1993's "Thinking Allowed").

[6] The lyric "Over the hill with the swords of a thousand men" was used by writer Garth Ennis as the title for a story arc of his comic series The Boys, consisting of issues 60–65.

This lyric was again used as the title for episode 3 of season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of the comic.

This led to it being picked up for a number of adverts, most recently in the British television advertisement for the holiday company Haven in 2020.