

But it didn't stop there, the melody also reached sixth place on the Billboard Hot 100 the top 20 for seven weeks, having managed to position itself in fourth place and in 1985 it was certified Gold in Canada, the singer-songwriter's homeland. It was the first time that a song by Bryan Adams topped the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, for four weeks and in the following five weeks it occupied the second place. Run to you has since surpassed the success of every other song on this album, as well as becoming one of the Canadian singer's most recognizable and popular songs. The song thus became the last written for “Reckless”, becoming the first track on this album. The recording of Run to You began on March 27, 1984, in Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada and continued until the middle of the same year.īryan Adams and Jim Vallance initially wrote the song for Blue Öyster Cult, but the group turned it down, as did the 38 Special it was later offered. As a justification, Stewart says that although the song has an intense chorus, sounding in an excellent way, there is literally not much more to the song: more than half of the song is composed of repetitions of the chorus and after it there is a huge breakdown at the instrumental level.Īfter touring Asia, Bryan Adams began recording for his fourth album, "Reckless". In the opinion of Stewart Mason, from AllMusic, Run to You despite being the first of the six greatest hits of “Reckless”, taking into account its lyrics, it is a weaker song than all the others. "Run to You" is a song that was recorded by singer-songwriter Bryan Adams and co-written by him with Jim Vallance. Tell me, will you stay, or will you, run away What's the sense of trying hard to find your dreams There's nobody there, no one cares for me Tell me, will you stay or will you run awayīut at night I come home and turn the key
