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  • Run Runaway
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  • 1984 singles
  • Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one singles
  • RCA Records singles
  • Slade songs
  • Music videos directed by Andrew MacNaughtan
  • Songs written by Jim Lea
  • Songs written by Noddy Holder
  • Great Big Sea songs
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  • %22Run Runaway%22 is a hard rock song performed by the English band Slade. The song was written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and was on their 1983 album The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome. It reached No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart, and proved to be the band's last U.K. Top 10 hit single.The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome album was released in 1984 in the United States with a different track listing under the title Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply. That same year, the single %22Run Runaway%22 became the band's biggest American hit, benefiting from heavy play on MTV, peaking at No. 20 and spending a total of eight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. It was also number one for two weeks on the Billboard Top Tracks chart.The single was included on Canada's official 'Top 100 Singles of 1984' chart, where Run Runaway peaked at No. 84.The melody is inspired by the hymn %22There Is a Happy Land.%22 Holder himself summed the song up as %22a rocky Scottish jig.%22Dave Thompson, from allmusic described the song as %22building on the anthemic power of the earlier %22My Oh My%22 - itself their biggest U.K. single in nine years - %22Run Runaway%22 is raucous chanting, swirling guitars, wild violin, and even a taste of heavy metal bagpipes, helped along by a drum sound that is pure early '80s.%22After being asked for his favourite Slade song, vocalist Noddy Holder replied that although %22Far Far Away%22 was his favourite, hearing %22Run Runaway%22 on the radio a few days before the interview really knocked him out.For the September–December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, Lea was interviewed and was asked to share where he was when he wrote various Slade tracks. For %22Run Runaway,%22 Lea stated it was written whilst he was holding a conversation with someone.In a mid-1989 Slade fan club magazine interview, Don Powell was asked if there was a Slade track that he felt was one of the band's best efforts on record. Powell replied stated that %22Standin' On The Corner%22 from the 1975 album Slade in Flame was a favourite. Powell also stated %22The 12%22 version of Run Runaway, I liked doing that one as well.%22In the September–December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade’s material. For the best single of the 80s, %22Run Runaway%22 placed at No. 2.The song is played frequently at UMass-Amherst basketball games.
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  • RCA Records
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  • Run Runaway
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