^ a b c d e "Album notes for Anthology by Dave Marsh (CD booklet).Keith Scott – rhythm guitar, lead guitar.The English actress Lysette Anthony appears in the video. While the song did not win any of the awards, it has received more MTV Video Music Award nominations than any other of Adams' songs. Directed by Steve Barron, it was nominated for the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards in five different categories: Best Direction, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. The music video was shot in London, England and later Los Angeles. In 1984, the song was promoted heavily in an episode of the NBC sitcom Double Trouble. The long instrumental is indicative of the theme of the music video where the protagonist is serenading his guitar as the object of his affection. Although the song has a thundering chorus, the kind that sounds truly excellent blasting through FM speakers, there is quite literally not much else to the song: of the song's nearly four-minute length, over half of the song is devoted to repeats of the chorus and an unimaginative instrumental breakdown that leads into a seemingly endless vamp on the chorus to fade." Stewart Mason from AllMusic said "Run to You" was the first of the album's six top 30 hits, and in retrospect, "one of the weakest of the lot. It was his second single to chart in Europe. "Run to You" was released the following month in Ireland and peaked at number eight and reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated for a Juno award for song of the year in Canada. It held the highest Canadian chart position Adams had attained at the time of release and became his third top-20 single in Canada. "Run to You" reached the top 20 on the Canadian singles chart and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number four. It also reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was his first number one song on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, a position it held for four weeks, and it spent an additional five weeks at number two (all behind Don Henley's "Boys of Summer"). "Run to You" was released worldwide on October 18, 1984, and became one of the most successful songs from Reckless on the American rock charts and arguably one of Bryan Adams's most recognizable and popular songs. However, the label states that the track is taken from the album with a running time of 3min 59 sec. The UK 12 inch single (AMY224) states on the rear of the sleeve that contains a "specially remixed version" and that the "original version appears on the A+M album Reckless AMA5013". And that first take is what you hear on the album now." After writing the rest of the song and deciding to record it, he brought his entire band into the studio, and he said hearing the whole band play it "was like hearing the song for the first time. Īdams wrote the riff by jamming on his guitar, but never took it seriously because he had added a "really silly.background vocal part" to the demo that obscured the riff's potential. 38 Special, who also declined to record the song. Adams and Vallance originally wrote the song for Blue Öyster Cult, but the group turned it down. The song, written January 10, 1983, became the last song written for Reckless. It was mixed on September 21, 1984, in New York by Jim Vallance. The recording for "Run to You" started on March 27, 1984, at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada and continued through the middle of the year. It was, and again, another song sort of stood the test of time, it’s still a great one.After a tour in Asia, Adams started the recording for Reckless. “So the song was finished, and they say, ‘You got to come and listen to this!’ Then I went in, and he was, ‘Just listen.’ I was like, ‘Wow, it’s a lot better than I thought it was.’ But again, I never thought the song would be this kickoff single off the record. Then I turned around to look into the control room and everybody was standing up the engineers, the tape engineer, the assistant, everybody sort of stood up.” “I was like, ‘Oh, I got this song, we can maybe try it.’ So I taught the band the song, and we did a take of it. Then when it came time to record the album ‘Reckless,’ I can remember, it was like the end of the session, and Clearmountain who was working with me on the record said to me, ‘I need one more song, is there anything else?'” The band didn’t like it, and I ended up not liking it. But we really took the demo in the wrong direction. “Well, the first song that comes to mind is ‘Run to You’ because that had been recorded – we’d written a song originally for Blue Oyster Cult, and my friend Bruce Fairbairn was producing the band and asked me to write a song for them.” Bryan Adams recalls he wrote “Run To You” for Blue Öyster Cult first:
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