{"id":9567,"date":"2012-11-05T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2012-11-05T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:46:15","slug":"song-of-the-week-05-11-2012-run-wild-run-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/song-of-the-week-05-11-2012-run-wild-run-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Of The Week: 05.11.2012: Run Wild, Run Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G6V0rdMw0-0\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G6V0rdMw0-0\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9569\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"sotw12b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sotw12b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Well I sell my soul to Faust, each and every night for you&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An incredible\u00a0lyric to start a song with. Even at 13 it impressed me, although I didn&#8217;t actually have a clue what it meant at the time. &#8216;Run Wild, Run Free&#8217; is one of the standout tracks on <em>The Changeling<\/em>. No mean feat when you consider how good the entire album is.<\/p>\n<p>A muted and subdued beginning belies the intensity of the song, and some of the lyrics sound incredibly personal and directed at a particular person: &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s a lonely time, I&#8217;ve walked from the limelight, into an empty cobbled street&#8230; for you<\/em>&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>Toyah&#8217;s voice\u00a0is outstanding throughout, as are her own backing vocals. I really believe(d) she means every word she sings, and the band as always sound great. I love the energy and intensity, and the drama,\u00a0of &#8216;Run Wild, Run Free&#8217; from beginning to end &#8211; although there isn&#8217;t really an end as it segues brilliantly\u00a0into &#8216;Brave New World&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Written by the juggernaut songwriting team of Willcox\/Bogen, produced by Steve Lillywhite\u00a0and released in Summer 1982, it is one of the best Toyah songs of the Safari years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9581\" title=\"sotw12bb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sotw12bb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sotw12bb.jpg 670w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sotw12bb-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I sell my soul to Faust, each and every night for you&#8230; An incredible\u00a0lyric to start a song with. Even at 13 it impressed me, although I didn&#8217;t actually have a clue what it meant at the time. &#8216;Run Wild, Run Free&#8217; is one of the standout tracks on The Changeling. No mean feat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,430,46],"tags":[448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}