Run Like Hell

"Run Like Hell"
Single by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
B-side"Don't Leave Me Now"
ReleasedApril 1980
RecordedApril–November, 1979
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Length4:20 (album version)
3:41 (7" single edit)
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Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
(1979)
"Run Like Hell"
(1980)
"Comfortably Numb"
(1980)
Audio sample
Audio video
"Run Like Hell" on YouTube

"Run Like Hell" is a song by English progressive band Pink Floyd, written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. It appears on the album The Wall. It was released as a single in 1980,[1][2] reaching #15 in the Canadian singles chart and #18 in Sweden, but it only reached #53 in the U.S. A 12" single of "Run Like Hell," "Don't Leave Me Now" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" peaked at #57 on the Disco Top 100 chart in the U.S.[3] To date, it is the last original composition written by both Gilmour and Waters, the last of such under the Pink Floyd banner, and the last composition recorded by all four members of the 1970s-era Floyd lineup.

  1. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 1-84195-551-5.
  2. ^ Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.
  3. ^ "Disco Top 100". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 27. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1980-07-05. p. 60. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2018-10-17.