![]() ![]() However, the label states that the track is taken from the album with a running time of 3min 59 sec. The UK 12 inch single (AMY224) states on the rear of the sleeve that contains a "specially remixed version" and that the "original version appears on the A+M album Reckless AMA5013". And that first take is what you hear on the album now." After writing the rest of the song and deciding to record it, he brought his entire band into the studio, and he said hearing the whole band play it "was like hearing the song for the first time. Īdams wrote the riff by jamming on his guitar, but never took it seriously because he had added a "really silly.background vocal part" to the demo that obscured the riff's potential. 38 Special, who also declined to record the song. Adams and Vallance originally wrote the song for Blue Öyster Cult, but the group turned it down. The song, written January 10, 1983, became the last song written for Reckless. ![]() ![]() It was mixed on September 21, 1984, in New York by Jim Vallance. The recording for "Run to You" started on March 27, 1984, at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada and continued through the middle of the year. Writing and recording Īfter a tour in Asia, Adams started the recording for Reckless. The single was certified Gold in Canada in 1985. It has appeared on all of his compilation albums. The song topped the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. In the accompanying music video, however, Adams portrays his guitar as the object of desire. The track deals with the subject of infidelity, and is sung from the perspective of a man who declares that he will continue to "run to" his seductive mistress over his faithful partner critic Ira Robbins for CMJ called it a "cheating classic". It was released in 1984 as the lead single from his fourth album, Reckless (1984). Sandy from Enterprise, FlLove this song! It pretty much says it all about the "married man" syndrome all single girls go through." Run to You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams.* The week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Cream" by Prince & The N.P.G. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 8th 1984, Bryan Adams performed "Run To You" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Īt the time the record was at #23 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and five weeks later on January 13th, 1985 it peaked at #6 for one week.Īnd on October 28th, 1984 it reached #1 in 1991.The video was nominated for MTV Video Music Awards in five categories, including Best Special Effects and Best Direction. And Steve Barron's going, 'Oh S-t.' That is probably my worst video."Īdams might not like it, but MTV did. We stood there, looking at this tree up in flames. ![]() Adams explained in the book I Want My MTV: "Imagine the shock and horror on set when the f-king thing burns in about a minute. After blowing a lot of their budget building the tree, the lightning strike looked more like a transformer explosion - it was nothing that would trigger anything more than a phone call to the electric company. The highlight of the video was supposed to be the tree that gets hit by lightning, which was going to trigger a scene with a lightning storm. We also see a girl running and some performance footage. In "Run To You," we see Adams in the rain, in the snow, and pulling a guitar from the leaves. Barron directed Michael Jackson's video for " Billie Jean," and his other clients included Culture Club and Tears For Fears. The video was directed by Steve Barron, who worked on most of Adams' clips from the era. ![]()
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