Probably the first music video I can remember - saw it on ITV chart show and thought wtf is this?! π
"Sledgehammer" is the biggest hit of Peter Gabriel's solo career and his single #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1986). The revolutionary music video, directed by Stephen R. Johnson with animations from Aardman (the same as those from Wallace & Gromit), used stop-motion, claymation and pixilation in an unprecedented way at the time. Peter Gabriel spent 16 hours lying motionless under a glass plate while animators moved objects frame by frame, the entire clip took almost a week of insane recording. Result? It won a record 9 awards at the 1987 MTV VMAs (including Video of the Year) and is to this day the most played music video in MTV history.