Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer ( Official Music video) 1986

Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer (Official Music video) 1986 Artist : Peter Gabriel Song : Sledgehammer Album : So (1986) Music video Sledgehammer had a video commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. Two dead, headless, featherless chickens were animated using stopmotion and shown dancing along to the synthesised shakuhachi solo in the middle of the song. This section was animated by Nick Park, of Aardman Animations, who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them his daughters AnnaMarie and Melanie, the animators themselves and director Stephen Johnson s girlfriend. Also included were six women who posed as the backup singers of the song.