#peter gabriel

[holehmckuckin]

Maybe I do...Maybe not i'm not sure (LIE)

(og reference)

[jt1674]

[prog-elitist]

ya i found him

what do you mean peter gabriel is on the cover of king crimson's lizard album??

[starstruckfangirlsposts]

Peter Gabriel in 1967

Peter in 1977

10 years didn't change him at all

Same energy, same beauty 💖

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 1986

Peter Gabriel is an English musician and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rockband Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. After releasing four successful studio albums, all titled Peter Gabriel, his fifth studio album, So (1986), became his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. "Sledgehammer" was released in April 1986 as the lead single from So, and reached number 1 in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation for the music video that gave life to images in the song. Gabriel and director Stephen R. Johnson wanted the music video to be satisfying on repeat viewings and set out to accomplish this by incorporating multiple ideas that were both "inventive and funny". They spent a couple of weeks generating ideas and later invited Brothers Quay and Aardman Animations to develop the music video, which was shot frame by frame.  "It took a lot of hard work," Gabriel recalled. "I was thinking at the time, 'If anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them.'" One of the animators of Aardman Animations was Nick Park, who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time and later created Wallace & Gromit.

A major hit on music television, "Sledgehammer" won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, the most awards a single video has won. It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999). "Sledgehammer" has also been declared MTV's number one animated video of all time. The video was voted number seven on TMF's Ultimate 50 Videos You Must See, which first aired 24 June 2006. It ranked at number 2 on VH1's "Top 20 Videos of the '80s" and number one on "Amazing Moment in Music" on the Australian TV show 20 to 1 in 2007. It won Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards and was nominated for the Best Music Video category for the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in that same year. According to Time magazine, "Sledgehammer"'s music video is the all-time most played music video on MTV. Gabriel recalled that the music video for "Sledgehammer" was broadcast in the Soviet Union, India, and China, which had otherwise refrained from playing his other material. In 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this song as the first song from his polka medley "Polka Party!" from the 1986 studio album of the same name.

"Sledgehammer" received a total of 79,6% yes votes!

[shart-my-levis]

listening to sledgehammer like oooo pete you little slut

[diana-andraste]

Peter Gabriel by Terry O'Neill, c. 1970s

[theevanadams]

The music in my phone are having conversations with each other

[cosmonautroger]

Peter Gabriel, Genesis, 1972

[adreciclarte4]

Peter Gabriel, 1978 by Clive Arrowsmith

[holehmckuckin]

Are you okay there? GET OUT THE DAMN BATHTUB.

[sillysymbol]

watcher of the skies, watcher of all

[thrice-owns-my-ass]

[starstruckfangirlsposts]

Peter and his dazzling contacts ✨️✨️✨️

Stunning

[sensandsensibility]

[turnleftaticela]

yayyy