Stray Cats - Runaway Boys [Top Of The Pops 1980]

Music video by Stray Cats performing Runaway Boys. (C) 2013 BBC Worldwide Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited

[@BruceLee-zd9bw]

This song was so unique back in the 80’s, and it is still as unique today in 2023. Brilliant. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@craighoward3934]

Still stands up as a killer track 41 years later !

[@easytomove]

Stand ! Killer ! Attack ! IYKYK

[@craighoward3934]

@@easytomove What ?

[@Jin-Ogawa]

@@craighoward3934 He agree you.

[@TheKopyKatz]

This was my introduction to The Stray Cats in 1980. Music was never the same again for me.

[@markmoore2625]

Rockabilly revivalists at the same time as New wave, post punk, ska, reggae and Brit soul. It shouldn't have worked, but it did. It truly was a great time for music. I read somewhere that these were a fantastic live band.

[@jukkasaksi]

I saw Stray Cats in Helsinki Finland 1989. I remember Brian had a mint green suit and boots :) They played Runaway Boys, Rock. Great gig, great memories from teenage-time.

[@TheKopyKatz]

We love playing a cover of Runaway Boys. This is the song that got me into The Stray Cats at school.

[@Getyabootsoffskinny]

My mam used to listen to an irish radio station , radio nova. I kept catching bits of this on the radio , and not hearing the name of the band. I was like man i love that riff. I was sat eating my tea watching top of the pops , and this came on , i was like , this is that track !!! I saw what they looked like and from then on ive loved the Stray Cats.God bless those boys

[@markmitchell450]

Never really appreciated how good these guys were

[@daxio1485]

I suspect Setzer is kind of a virtuoso / genius actually - kind of Zappa / Hendrix - dunno

[@davidrixon3549]

Saw them in 1981 in Sydney. The whole place was jumping. One of the best bands back the. Magc

[@melgrant7404]

My favourite stray cats song xxxx

[@AnInsideJob-mynewbook]

One of the best songs of the 1980s. So much more exciting and different to what the music scene was mass producing at the time.

[@martingreenwood3394]

Agree real musicians for a change

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

I considered myself a mod at the time I was 10 but bought this on 7inch single with the silver label lol, I loved it..Everyone was a mod or a rocker back then or so I thought 🫶

[@AnitaVickers-ey2nw]

The best rockabilly band ever still listening to them in 2023 from 1980. Always have always will. Brian Setzer is underated as a greatest guitarist and singer. So original and a legend. Up there with Elvis Buddy Holly etc.

[@davemacdonald3889]

Saw them on their first UK 🇬🇧 tour, fucking brilliant. Rocking and fighting with the Skins and punks,loved it.

[@mattcollier5957]

Awesome 80s Rockabilly, seen Brian Jim and Lee many times, now Brian has his Orchestra, brilliant and one of the worlds best guitarists

[@28grey]

Love the stray cats, one of best rockabilly bands ever!

[@jeanlucbieules7660]

I really love that and i always will

[@maxborger8573]

this still rocks!!!!

[@melgrant7404]

Good music never dies xx

[@tomsqueeze8838]

''Running faster, faster all the time...'' oh yeah, rockabilly cats! I love the 80s more than ever !

[@robjones2408]

Saw the Stray Cats in London, December 1980. They were magnificent. If early Elvis and Gene Vincent had be reborn, this is how it would sound. Forty years has done nothing to diminish this track. Brian Seltzer, what a great guitarist!

[@melgrant7404]

Agree Brian and the boys just brilliant xxxx

[@A.BondGirl]

@Rob Jones absolutely agree, total legends!!

[@flashtheoriginal]

Still class Just fucking magnificent

[@harrismiller1948]

The kind of music you don't hear anymore, too busy listening to boy bands

[@gregthomas1346]

Brian setzer, an alternative guitar god

[@stuartwallace6154]

Went and bought the record the very next day and my life changed forever

[@stephenstone8817]

The Stray Cats took rockabilly music to a whole new level in the early 80's. They were different and had their own unique sound staying true to their musical influences without sounding like tribute artists. Stray cats were iconic and raised the bar for other acts to follow.

[@garywoollard810]

Actually they took down level for plastics only and everyone turned to physcobilly

[@elsolitario1741]

hahaha fuckin' bri he looked like brigitte nielsen hahaha damn it

[@melgrant7404]

@@elsolitario1741 more successful though and Brian is cool❤❤❤

[@gerranium9772]

Talented and authentic band, they defined my teens in the 80's!

[@billlee6855]

@@garywoollard810 true could not stand them ,did not play in any of the rockabilly clubs

[@paulhadfield7909]

wheni first saw this, i was jumping up and down, it rocked, top band

[@timevans2086]

Saw them do this in Hanley UK where they were excellent, my ears rung with this for weeks.

[@1e0s]

I was a punk back in those days & these guys blew me away. 🎶😎

[@shedendman]

I was in those day and still am a skinhead,no offence,but this was cack

[@melgrant7404]

​@shedendman no it was great. Can't deny the excellent guitar playing of Brian setzer.

[@stanleystuart2008]

Most underrated group should of got more recognition banging little group

[@rudyrudy6882]

Good vibes never dies!🙏🇧🇪

[@melgrant7404]

Brian cool😻❤with the quiff to end all quiffs ❤❤❤

[@pajs1000]

Stray Cats. They make you dance. That and the lyrics is what music is about.

[@roysmith2322]

love it I was a teddy boy in the 70s & 80s & these were my favourite band love rock & roll then &even now

[@VincentRE79]

Do you still dress like it?

[@petehugh4069]

The best band ever... thanks cats, changed my life x

[@KhalidKhan-co5sb]

what a great tune full song

[@MySarianna]

Stray Cats One And Only !!!!!!!

[@monsterjazzlicks]

Setzer is a born musician!

[@markoviikberg3578]

Oh, boy... thanks guys! Rockabilly never die.!

[@oscarrees-thompson6484]

I was never a teddy boy but my father was. More a rocker but boy have we lost so much. Life had so much meaning back then😂.😂😂😂

[@sgrfpprmnt]

Their best track

[@melgrant7404]

Brians favourite xx

[@keith-leecastle6700]

I turned 12 at the end of 1980 and remember seeing Stray Cats on TOTPs. They really weren’t my cup of tea but I did, even at that age, think they looked extraordinary. No one had tattoos or looked like them in 80. No pop band anyway. They’re still not my thing but remain impressed at the image. Superficial I know.

[@melgrant7404]

You are about the same age as me! Still got this record xx

[@damianb2374]

Please assert again that they are not your thing, the whole world holds it's breath.

[@georgeclarke1183]

Great song played at my wedding disco

[@hanski4166]

THE BEST !!

[@michaelpowderly5514]

2024.....listening to this. I was 1 year old when this was recorded and it still sound's fresh and better than anything being produced now.

[@leesmith9602]

FROM THE 1980'S MUSIC KICKED ASS & THAT'S A FACT!

[@stevepettit2064]

Well i was defo more mod than rocker music taste wise as a teen but i had a soft spot for these guys what the hell great song brian giving billy idol a run for his money in the hair stakes.

[@rudyrudy6882]

Hummm unbelievable! Still so good 🙏🇧🇪

[@marinokeppens1658]

the bass is 'amazing'!!love you guys!!greetz from Belgium;-)

[@larrybarker2495]

Stray cat class.

[@daxio1485]

I finally sound like my parents. They don't make music like this anymore.

[@AnInsideJob-mynewbook]

I was a Rockabilly in East London/Essex in the late 1970s and early 80s, during the Rock 'n' Roll revival, which swept across the United Kingdom. The Stray Cats were huge back then. I was proud to wear my collar up. Look at all the boring plebs in the background. Too much disco music has brain washed them and they have no style or swing. Haha!

[@CaptainCaveman01]

Was just about to comment about the boring fuckers behind the band hahaha

[@ronaldmulukom7477]

Love this So 😎🎯 Reale great shit ☠️

[@melgrant7404]

@@ronaldmulukom7477 yep me too

[@dj80s28]

@@melgrant7404 rockerbilly rules

[@melgrant7404]

@@dj80s28 oh yeah xxx

[@Adi-is-Adi.]

Legends.

[@riprex2072]

Don't come much cooler than this✌

[@fabiosaboya5329]

I attended the Stray Cats concert in São Paulo Brazil exactly 33 years ago, March 10, 1990 at Show Project SP

[@markharrison5307]

It takes me back to my good times of life.

[@edmarlemos4453]

GREAT BAND AMAZING BRIAN SETZER AUTENTIC STRAIGHT CATS!!!

[@markeddeckmusic7202]

About time they went back to the early sound

[@melgrant7404]

Those early hits were brilliant ❤❤

[@caxtonman]

Awesome!! Totally forgot about this one....... :o)

[@user-ff3cv6vh5p]

Почему, я не слышал это раньше..!!?? Супер..!! 👍👌💯🆒

[@pablosebastiantorres9632]

stray cats run away boy baby

[@spongerobb1894]

Rockabilly-Punk.

[@dalepontiac5904]

I was a ted til the cats came along , awesome!! made the whole scene rockin again ...it pissed off the old teds an then they hated on us younguns, I was 17 and we had a fuckin ball.... and still do!

[@scat1a]

Loved pissing them off though .

[@jaywalker3087]

One of the best Punk songs of that era...

[@user-fs1wl2ns5b]

Высший пилотаж !

[@user-pyloripylori._.]

❤❤❤

[@mikkouhtakari139]

Real Rocker!!

[@MrTeza123]

+Mikko Uhtakari never forget the strays

[@kimgrant3879]

❤❤❤bri

[@scottsoul64]

Check out Brian Setzler live, AWSOME

[@melgrant7404]

❤❤❤Brian

[@deeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Круто

[@MrTeza123]

the people look in shook lol

[@mummyd1990]

The clash copiests is what the stray cats are but still a fantastic band.

[@onlyme219]

The haircuts alone deserve an award

[@Koni2947]

La guitare!!! Le niveau!

[@michaeltayler3041]

⚡️💥🔥😎

[@paulturner6127]

cool as fuck

[@user-tz9hb6yt9j]

💃💃💃

[@darkeagles9358]

Who here watching this in 2016

[@davebates506]

I'm watching this in 1980. I'm a time traveller.

[@mabroukbelghitifouad9126]

Huge remember of prison in spain cadix 1980.

[@rob16248]

Great to have Tommy Vance doing the intro'. I couldn't stand all the other Radio 1 DJ's (for obvious reasons, I guess.).

[@lewisner]

They weren't all perverts.

[@nigelbryant2672]

Tommy Vance. Living in the past even in the 80s.

[@craighoward3934]

@@nigelbryant2672 He was a Legend as Host on Friday night Rock Show N W O B H M !

[@murielabela7298]

Bryan selzer par n apporte qui les strays cats du rock tres bon côté musicale bien e.tendue

[@deanpoucher6831]

Made It To Coranation Street

[@pookaverse3380]

Lightning in a bottle

[@madmanzo3580]

the guy dressed in purple is nikki clarke

[@elsolitario1741]

hahaha fuckin' bri he looked like brigitte nielsen hahaha damn it

[@user-lr5ph1gk5j]

Просто Окей

[@spmoran4703]

The Stray Cats were probably on the show by the request of Mr Rock Tommy Vance

[@easytomove]

I saw invisible bubble bomb around them

[@leoaussie2746]

I was just seven than...

[@monsterjazzlicks]

Does Slim Jim actually play the bass drum? And is he left handed?

[@scat1a]

Yes he does play the bass drum and he is left handed. They are miming to this so not using the bass drum here .

[@mikkoojala8227]

What kind of style is that bass player using? It looks really odd. I mean the right hand.

[@Twangabilly]

Type in "rockabilly bass slap" and you'll see plenty of videos. The tape on his fingers is just to cover/prevent blisters

[@gremlinuk1968]

There from the UK, ?

[@franciscomaldonado9744]

NY, USA

[@NHK696]

CONTAX T3

[@user-bz3wn1zo7e]

Coooooooooooooool!!!!