Single:
I Ran (So Far Away) entered the Australian singles chart* on 14 June 1982 and peaked at #1. The song was #15 on the Top 100 of 1982.
Album:
The song is on A Flock of Seagulls which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 July 1982 and peaked at #19.
Songwriters:
Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley, Paul Reynolds
Producer:
Mike Howlett
Record label of Australian release:
Jive
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
A Flock of Seagulls is an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s.
Australia is the only country where I Ran reached #1. At home in the UK, the song peaked much lower at #43. In New Zealand it made #7, Canada #26, and the US #9.
In an article for Rolling Stone titled, Anglomania: The Second British Invasion, Parke Puterbaugh wrote of the impact of the song’s music video on its US chart success: “Fronted by a singer-synth player with a haircut stranger than anything you’d be likely to encounter in a month of poodle shows, A Flock of Seagulls struck gold on the first try.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ran_(So_Far_Away)
Lyrics:
I walk along the avenue
I never thought I’d meet a girl like you
Meet a girl like you
With auburn hair and tawny eyes
The kind of eyes that hypnotise me through
You hypnotise me through
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