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Sold On Song

BRITs 25 Song Award
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

At the time the song was a change of direction for Peter Gabriel. He claims that writing it was "an attempt to recreate some of the spirit and style of the music that most excited me as a teenager - sixties soul".

Reaching number four in 1986, the brilliant video to the multi-award winning song took 100 hours to shoot over eight days in Bristol in April of the same year.

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