When was sledgehammer released

Peter Gabriel 's video for his Billboard Hot number-one single, a collaboration with Aardman Animations which set new standards for the industry and became one of the most awarded videos in history. Animation Short Fantasy Music Musical. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Stop-motion effects were created by the then little known Aardman Animations. They later achieved huge success with the Wallace and Gromit franchise and Shaun the Sheep Quotes Peter Gabriel : you could have steam train, if you just lay down your tracks.

Connections Edited into Peter Gabriel: Play User reviews 2 Review. Top review. A special mix of animation, singing, a clever story, humor and fine irony.

And, off course, Peter Gabriel. A total show, seductive memories and admirable effort for a great video. Kirpianuscus Jan 4, Anyway, Jill [his then wife] was great about it. MORE : 15 things kids spent their pocket money on in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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Share this article via comment Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter. More Stories. Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame and the Brothers Quay provided claymation , pixilation , and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them: Gabriel's own daughters Anna and Melanie, the animators themselves, and director Stephen Johnson's girlfriend. Also included were six women who posed as the back-up singers of the song.

Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time. This section was animated by Nick Park , of Aardman Animations, who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time. The style was later used again in the video for another successful single from the album So , " Big Time.

During the shot where Gabriel wore a Christmas tree suit, he started dancing around in a wild jerky motion. Gabriel was actually being shocked. Although many of these techniques had already been employed in earlier music videos such as Talking Heads 's hit " Road to Nowhere " , the Sledgehammer video won nine MTV Video Music Awards in , the most awards a single video has won.

MTV later announced that "Sledgehammer" is the most played music video in the history of the station. In , "Weird Al" Yankovic covered this song as the first song from his polka medley " Polka Party! He also imitated the video in the music video for " UHF " in , and used the song's style as the basis for his song "Waffle King" from Alapalooza in In , the song appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Better Living Through Chemistry," during a scene inside a biker bar.

A slightly altered version of the shakuhachi refrain in the opening was used by background musician Jan Hammer at appropriate moments.