Cover Versions
"Run to You" has been covered by numerous artists. The first notable cover recording was released as a single by the UK urban dance act Rage in 1992. This version did not meet with the same critical acclaim as Adams' version, but, after having failed to chart when released for the first time in May 1992, the single gained an unexpected boost in popularity due to controversy in the UK music media about the band's name following the release of the single because they shared their name with a German heavy metal band who had been recording under the same since 1984. After changing their name to En-Rage to avoid legal action from the German band, they re-released the single six months later, and this time it peaked at #3 in the UK singles chart (eight spots higher than the original in that country); the following year it was featured on the band's only album, Savior, released back under the name of Rage.
The second was an alternative rock version by Lou Barlow on the 1993 extended play album, Lou Barlow and Friends: Another Collection of Home Recordings. A German band named Novaspace covered "Run to You" on their 2003 album, Cubes which was heavily inspired by Dance and pop music. The Japanese rock band Nil covered "Run to You" on their 2004 cover album "The Covering Inferno". The Norwegian hard rock singer-songwriter Jørn Lande covered "Run to You" on his cover' album Unlocking the Past on the Japanese edition of the album. In 2009 U.K. girl band Bananarama released their own version as a digital pre-order only to their album Viva. "Run to you" appears on the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Flash FM radio station.
It has been mashed up with Metallica's "Enter Sandman" on YouTube.
Canadian rock bands Arkells and The Reason covered the song together at both Edgefest and the Festival of Friends.
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