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This game-changer video is one of MTV's most popular of all time. It uses "claymation", pixilation and stop motion animation. And Nick Park, who later famously created Wallace and Gromit, animated the dancing chickens (below). Péter Gabriel lay under a glass sheet for 16 hours to make the video, but believes the song would not have been a hit without it. He said: "I think it had a sense of both humour and fun, neither of which were particularly associated with me. I mean - wrongly
in my way of looking at it -I think I was seen as fairly intense and eccentric."
"Sledgehammer" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, So (1986), on 25 April 1986.
It was produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois. It hit No. 1 in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to its music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with "Games Without Frontiers" as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom.
The song's music video won a record nine MTV Video Music Award at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. The song also saw Gabriel nominated for three Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In a 2005 poll conducted by Channel 4 the music video was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest Pop Videos
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This game-changer video is one of MTV's most popular of all time. It uses "claymation", pixilation and stop motion animation. And Nick Park, who later famously created Wallace and Gromit, animated the dancing chickens (below). Péter Gabriel lay under a glass sheet for 16 hours to make the video, but believes the song would not have been a hit without it. He said: "I think it had a sense of both humour and fun, neither of which were particularly associated with me. I mean - wrongly
in my way of looking at it -I think I was seen as fairly intense and eccentric."
"Sledgehammer" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, So (1986), on 25 April 1986.
It was produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois. It hit No. 1 in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to its music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with "Games Without Frontiers" as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom.
The song's music video won a record nine MTV Video Music Award at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. The song also saw Gabriel nominated for three Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In a 2005 poll conducted by Channel 4 the music video was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest Pop Videos
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🌐Twitter twitter.com/deapblueseas
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Media: SVHS
Video Format: PAL
Audio: HiFi Stereo
Location:
Recording Date:
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This channel may make use of copyrighted material the use which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner on the basis of 'fair use guidelines' and is for Historical, Study, Research and Education.
