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Speedwagon has never been a big influence on me, but I do like this song a lot. I've heard a lot of groups cover this one. Those covers never live up to the original. I'm not usually one to knock covers either. If you can take it and make it your own or cover it exactly like the original, do it. Otherwise you fall somewhere in the middle ground, sounding like you couldn't quite pull it off. That's the gray area lot of covers of this song fall into.
The song hit #5 on the Hot 100 in 1981. It followed their hugely successful #1, "Keep on Loving You." The video for "Take It on the Run" was the ninth video to play on MTV during the channel's first day of broadcasting. Unfortunately, only a few seconds into the song, the video cut to black and never came back to finish that play of the video.
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