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"Run Like Hell"
RunLikeHell.jpg
Single by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
B-side "Don't Leave Me Now"
ReleasedApril 1980
RecordedApril–November, 1979
Genre
Length4:20 (album version)
3:41 (7" single edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
(1979)
"Run Like Hell"
(1980)
"Comfortably Numb"
(1980)
Audio sample