"On the Run" is the third track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. It is an instrumental that deals with the pressures of travel (which Rick Wright said would often bring fear of death), and is a VCS3 synthesizer-led piece. When the band performed this song in concert, at the end of it, a model airplane would fly from one end of the arena to the other, appearing to crash in a brilliant explosion. The same effect was used in the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tours with a flying bed, and was an inspiration for the fictional band Disaster Area from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose stage act involves a spaceship crashing into the sun.
On The Run (also known as Auf der Flucht) is a 1982 double a-side single by the Austrian musician Falco that was basically released as promotional single in France, Canada and the USA (or as follow up to "Der Kommissar" which became there very famous). It was produced 1981 in Berlin, Germany by Robert Ponger. On the other side of the single, there is another song called Maschine brennt, the double a-side single "On the run/Maschine brennt" peaked # 9 in the US hot play.
In european countries (except France) the single wasn't released as double a-side which meant the next single after "Der Kommissar" became "Maschine brennt" instead (that didn't include "Auf der Flucht") in case of Falco's home country Austria. In Austria and Norway the song peaked # 4 in the official charts. In Finland it reached # 7, in Germany # 10, in Spain # 34 and in the Netherlands # 49.
