Running Away (Paul Haig)

Running Away (Paul Haig)

Infobox Single
Name = Running Away



Artist = Paul Haig
from Album =
B-side =
Released = May 1982
Format = 7"/12"
Recorded = 1982
Genre = Synth Pop
Length =
Label = Operation Twilight (UK)
Writer = Sly Stone
Producer = Paul Haig
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =
This single = Running Away
Next single = Justice

Running Away was the debut solo single from Edinburgh musician and former Josef K lead vocalist Paul Haig. It was a cover of the Sly & The Family Stone classic. It was released in Belgium by independent record label, Les Disques Du Crepuscule.

Les Disques Du CrepusculeTWI 088
1982

Track listing

# "Running Away"
# "Time"

Reviews

Running Away, NME, 12 June 1982If Death appears to be living in whichever form they imagine her to be, then Paul Haig and his now dead group Josef K weren't so much tormented as tickled by her permanent poltergeist presence in their shadow. The Absurdity Of It All was a matter of amusement to Josef K and they converted their brave mockery into cool, disdainful asides that made us laugh, too. Until they lost sight of Death, that is, and she punished them by relieving them of the wit, thereby leaving them with a set of glib definitions and hollow phrases.

Only after Josef K split has Paul Haig rediscovered The Meaning of Life - namely it doesn't matter a bit - and with the weight of existence removed he can easily breeze through Sly Stone's Running Away. The song's glimpse from the other side, from where the worrying and fretting appears doubly pointless, and Haig performs it as the genial taunt it is. Time reminds just how great and affecting a singer Haig can be, and the way his voice leads the aching melody melts any obvious doubts you might feel about the disruptive chorus.


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