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Neil Crossley

“I was thinking at the time, if anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them!”: How ’60s soul music, African rhythms and a groundbreaking video fuelled Peter Gabriel’s biggest hit

Numerous songs have become inextricably linked with the videos created to promote them - and none more so than Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer.

Voted MTV’s number one animated video of all time, it features claymation, pixilation and stop motion animation, giving life to the many images evoked in the song.

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