Single:
Run Runaway entered the Australian singles chart* on 14 May 1984 and peaked at #17.
Album:
The song is on The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome which entered the Australian albums chart* on 16 April 1984 and peaked at #50.
Songwriters:
Noddy Holder, Jim Lea
Producer:
John Punter
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Music video:
A promotional video was shot at Eastnor Castle in Ledbury, Herefordshire. The video featured the band performing the song in front of an audience dressed in tartan, a marching bagpipe band and a kilted Scot (Ron Tarr) grappling with a caber.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Runaway
Wikipedia:
Run Runaway, described by Noddy Holder as “a rocky Scottish jig”, features Jim Lea on electric fiddle. In a 1984 TVAM television interview , Holder said: “We always wanted to do a jig with the old violin going and that. We decided to go in and put a sort of rock beat behind an old Scottish jig.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Runaway
Lyrics:
Hold on!
I like black and white
(Dreaming of black and white)
You like black and white
Run run away
See chameleon
(Lying there in the sun)
All things to everyone
Run run away
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