#22: Run Runaway by Slade
City: Winnipeg, MB
Radio Station: CKY
Peak Month: July 1984
Peak Position in Winnipeg ~ #1
Peak Position in Vancouver ~ #6
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #20
YouTube: “Run Runaway”
Lyrics: “Run Runaway”
Slade is a band formed in 1963 in Wolverhampton, UK. There were a few lineup changes between 1963 and 1966. However, the classic lineup consisted of Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim Lea, and Noddy Holder. David Hill was born in 1946 near Plymouth, Devon, England. Hill bought his first guitar from a mail-order catalogue and received some guitar lessons from a science teacher at his school. He then formed a band called The Young Ones with some school friends. Subsequently, Dave Hill played with Don Powell in a band called The Vendors, whose name was then changed to The N’ Betweens. Don Powell was born in a suburb of Wolverhampton in 1946. He started to play drums while he was in the Boy Scouts in 1958. Hill and Powell met Jim Lea and Noddy Holder, and the N’Betweens morphed into Slade.