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Who Will You Run To

1987 single by Heart

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ7997445 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Who Will You Run To" is a song recorded by American rock band Heart. It was composed by Diane Warren and released as a single from Heart's ninth studio album, Bad Animals.

"Who Will You Run To" is one of a long list of hit songs written by Warren. Heart's version of her song became the band's eighth U.S. top-ten single. It also climbed to number thirty in the UK Singles Chart, where it was also available as a 12" single. An extended rock version of the song was Heart's first UK CD single release.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Who Will You Run To” is 1987 single by Heart. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Will, single and Heart, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 95-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-08-15. For this dossier, Will, single and Heart is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Who Will You Run To” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.