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"Run" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2004 as the second single of their third album, Final Straw (2003). The song was conceived in 2000 by frontman Gary Lightbody after an accident he had during a bender. "Run" has been described as a Britpop power ballad.
Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish–Scottish rock band formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland, [1] consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals); Lightbody is the band's sole remaining original member.
Original song, appears during the end of the film "Isolation" [141] Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur: John Lennon cover "Comeback Girl" (Snow Patrol Remix) [142] Comeback Girl: Song by Republic of Loose. Snow Patrol has remixed the song, and does not perform on it 2010 "Unknown Caller" (Snow Patrol Remix ...
The band has received seven BMI Awards, two for the song "Run" in 2005: "College Song of the Year" and "BMI Pop Award". The other awards were for the songs " Chasing Cars " and " Hands Open ", each winning a BMI Pop Award (twice for Chasing Cars, in 2007 and 2008) and for being performed a combined one million times in the United States in 2007.
The song is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK. [4] It was the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops that year. [5] Released in the post-Britpop period, the song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. [6] [7]
This site was originally titled "Run (Snow Patrol song)" and not "Run by Leona Lewis". In respect to the writers of the song should please not written a mass of advertising datas about Lewis' new single. I removed Leona's section because it 1) has it's own page now 2) is, as always for Leona articles, excessively long. Thank you. Well done.
Gary Lightbody used this time to write more songs. "Run", "Chocolate" and "Spitting Games" were written during this period, and later appeared on the next album Final Straw. On the tour following the release in March 2001, the band introduced "Run" to their audience, who received it very positively.
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