SONG OF THE DAY

“Run Like Hell” by Pink Floyd (The Wall, Harvest Records (UK)
Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US), 1980). Written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– The song is from the point of view of anti-hero Pink during a hallucination in which he becomes a fascist dictator and turns a concert audience into an angry mob. He sends the mob out to raid nearby neighborhoods that are full of minorities.

– The song features the only keyboard solo on The Wall (although on live performances, “Young Lust” and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” would also feature keyboard solos); after the last line of lyrics, a synthesiser apparently takes over Waters’ singing.

– According to some accounts, The Wall director, Alan Parker, hired real skinheads for the scene, and things very nearly went out of control during the scene where they demolish a diner, when they continued their destruction even after Parker called “cut”. They also allegedly sexually harassed the actress playing their victim.

– In live performances: during the previous song, “In the Flesh”, a giant inflatable pig was released, which Waters refers to in a speech between both songs. It was sometimes introduced by Waters as “Run Like Fuck” and Waters and Gilmour sang different lines. In Roger Waters’ The Wall concert in Berlin in 1990, he made no speech and sang all the lines alone.

– Following Waters’ departure from Pink Floyd, the song became a regular number in the band’s concerts, usually ending the show and going over nine minutes long.

VIDEO OF THE DAY

And the video from Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81, recorded August 9th, 1980: