Like most of their glam-rock contemporaries, the quartet Slade racked up numerous hits in their UK homeland while barely making a dent with listeners in the States. Despite topping the British singles charts with five songs during the '70s, they were only able to notch a handful of minor hits in the US - none of which cracked the Top 40 - during the early half of the decade.

The group's fortunes fell during the late '70s, as Slade fell out of favor in the UK as well, but by the early '80s, they were the subjects of renewed interest. In the States, the band Quiet Riot became one of the first heavy metal acts to find success on the pop charts when their cover of Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize" reached #5 in late 1983 (Slade had only been able to reach #98 with the song a decade earlier).

When their album Keep Your Hand's Off My Power Supply was released Stateside in the spring of 1984 (having already been a smash in the UK), it became Slade's first hit album in the US since 1975. The success was driven by the single "Run Runaway." The song was a manic slab of trashy rock and roll which didn't allow it's heft to overshadow a monster chorus.

In May, the song became the legendary UK act's first US Top 40 hit. With the song's accompanying video proving wildly popular at MTV, galloped up the chart before finally running out of steam at #20 in July. "Run Runaway" proved unstoppable at album rock radio, though, as the song topped that format's chart, becoming one of the biggest hits of the year.

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