| "Running Free" | ||||
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| Single by Iron Maiden | ||||
| from the album Iron Maiden | ||||
| B-side | "Burning Ambition" | |||
| Released | 8 February 1980 | |||
| Recorded | December 1979 ("Running Free")[1] November 1979 ("Burning Ambition")[2] March 1985 ("Running Free" (live) & "Sanctuary" (live) October 1984 ("Murders in the Rue Morgue" (live) | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 3:04 3:26[3] | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Steve Harris Paul Di'Anno | |||
| Producer(s) | Will Malone[4] Martin Birch (1985 live single)[3] | |||
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"Running Free" is the debut single by Iron Maiden, released on 8 February 1980 on the 7" 45 rpm vinyl record format. It was written by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno. The song appears as the third track on the band's debut album Iron Maiden (and the fourth track on its 1998 re-release). In 1985, a live version of the song was released as the first single from Live After Death (the band's twelfth single). In 1990, the original single was reissued on CD and 12" vinyl as part of The First Ten Years box, in which it was combined with the band's next single, "Sanctuary". The 1985 live single was also released as part of this box set, combined with 1985's "Run to the Hills".
- ^ Wall, Mick (2004). Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography (3rd ed.). Sanctuary Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 1-86074-542-3.
- ^ Wall, Mick (2004). Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography (3rd ed.). Sanctuary Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 1-86074-542-3.
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