"Run to the Hills" |
 | Single by Iron Maiden | from the album The Number of the Beast, Live After Death, Rock in Rio | B-side(s) | 1982 single "Total Eclipse" 1985 live single "Phantom of the Opera (live)", "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" 2002 live single Part 1 "22, Acacia Avenue (live)", "The Prisoner (live)", "Run to the Hills (Camp Chaos video)" Part 2 "Children of the Damned (live)", "Total Eclipse (live)", "Run to the Hills (video)" | Released | 12 February 1982 2 December 1985 11 March 2002 | Recorded | 1982 March 1985 19 January 2001 | Genre | Heavy metal | Length | 3:50 3:54 4:59 | Label | EMI | Writer(s) | Steve Harris | Chart positions | 1982 single Image File history File links Iron_Maiden_-_Run_to_the_Hills. ...
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1985 live single | Iron Maiden singles chronology | "Purgatory" (1981) | "Run to the Hills" (1982) | "The Number of the Beast" (1982) |
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| "Running Free (live)" (1985) | "Run to the Hills (live)" (1985) | "Wasted Years" (1986) |
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| "Out of the Silent Planet" (2000) | "Run to the Hills (live)" (2002) | "Wildest Dreams" (2003) | 1985 live single |
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 | Cover of part 2 of 2002 live single | "Run to the Hills" is Iron Maiden's sixth single and first single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album The Number of the Beast. It was written by Steve Harris, bassist and founder of the band. Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from east London. ...
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Running Free (live) was the first single from the legendary live Iron Maiden album Live After Death. ...
Wasted Years was the fifteenth single released by Iron Maiden and the first from their Somewhere in Time album. ...
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The Number of the Beast is a heavy metal album released in 1982 (see 1982 in music) by Iron Maiden on EMI in the UK and originally Harvest Records/Capitol Records in the U.S. (now on Sanctuary Records/Columbia Records), and is widely considered to be one of the...
Stephen Percy Harris or Arry to his fans (born March 12, 1956 in Leytonstone, London, England) is the bassist and primary composer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...
The song was released as a single on 12 February 1982, as a prelude to the album. This would be the first single released by the band to feature current vocalist Bruce Dickinson. On the b-side was a song called "Total Eclipse", which would not be on the initial version of the album The Number of the Beast. However, the band later regretted this decision, as they thought the song was too good to be only a b-side. "Total Eclipse" was added to the Number of the Beast album when it was re-released in 1998. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Track listing
1982 single - "Run to the Hills" (Steve Harris) – 3:50
- "Total Eclipse" (Harris, Dave Murray, Clive Burr) – 4:28
Stephen Percy Harris or Arry to his fans (born March 12, 1956 in Leytonstone, London, England) is the bassist and primary composer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...
David Michael Murray (born December 23, 1958 in Edmonton, London) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as one of the original members of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...
Clive Burr (b. ...
1985 live single - "Run to the Hills (live)" (Harris) – 3:54
- "Phantom of the Opera (live)" (Harris) – 7:20
- "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) (live)" (Harris) – 4:14
2002 single Version 1 This version of the single contains the studio version of the song "Run to the Hills", while the b-sides were recorded live at the Reading Festival, on August 28 1982. It also includes the Camp Chaos version of the "Run to the Hills" music video. The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ...
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- "Run to the Hills" (Harris) – 3:50
- "22, Acacia Avenue (live)" (Harris, Adrian Smith) – 6:33
- "The Prisoner (live)" (Smith, Harris) – 5:55
- "Run to the Hills (Camp Chaos video)" (Harris)
Adrian Frederik H Smith (born February 27, 1957 in Hackney, East London, England) is a songwriter and one of three guitarists/songwriters in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...
Version 2 This version of the single contains a live version of the song "Run to the Hills", which is the same as on the Rock in Rio live album. The b-sides for the second version were recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on March 20 1982. The live video of "Run to the Hills" is also from the Rock in Rio live album. Rock in Rio is a live album recorded during the heavy metal legends Iron Maidens 2001 headlining performance at the Rock in Rio festival. ...
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Rock in Rio is a live album recorded during the heavy metal legends Iron Maidens 2001 headlining performance at the Rock in Rio festival. ...
- "Run to the Hills (live)" (Harris) – 4:59
- "Children of the Damned (live)" (Harris, Smith) – 4:32
- "Total Eclipse (live)" (Harris, Murray, Burr) – 3:57
- "Run to the Hills (live video)"
trivia - The song The Trooper seems like a sequel to this one.
Notes - ^ "VH1 40 Greatest Metal Songs", 1-4 May 2006, VH1 Channel, reported by VH1.com; last accessed September 10, 2006.
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