Run to Paradise

"Run to Paradise"
Single by The Choirboys
from the album Big Bad Noise
B-side"Struck by Lightning"
Released31 August 1987
GenreHard rock, pub rock
Length4:08
LabelMushroom
Songwriter(s)Mark Gable, Brad Carr
Producer(s)Peter Blyton, Brian McGee, Choirboys
The Choirboys singles chronology
"Fireworks"
(1986)
"Run to Paradise"
(1987)
"Boys Will Be Boys"
(1988)

"Run to Paradise" is a song by Australian hard rock group the Choirboys which reached No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in December 1987. The related Big Bad Noise album peaked at No. 5, and was the twenty-first highest-selling album of 1988 in Australia. In New Zealand, "Run to Paradise" attained No. 13 on the RIANZ Singles Chart. Released in the United States in 1989, it appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock charts. The song was re-worked for a 2004 release credited to Nick Skitz vs. Choirboys and reached No. 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Run to Paradise" was ranked number 24.