{"id":47614,"date":"2020-11-11T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=47614"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:56:26","slug":"stop-motion-transformations-peter-gabriels-artistic-ascent-into-pop-stardom-with-sledgehammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/stop-motion-transformations-peter-gabriels-artistic-ascent-into-pop-stardom-with-sledgehammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Motion Transformations: Peter Gabriel\u2019s Artistic Ascent into Pop Stardom with \u201cSledgehammer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-3262325438\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-1564908511254-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-1564908511254-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-1564908511254-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-1564908511254-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-1564908511254-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In August of 1975, Peter Gabriel of Genesis fame delivered his resignation letter, \u201cOut Angels Out\u201d to the press. Citing the challenges of personal growth within the necessary structures of a band environment, he explained: \u201cAs an artist, I need to absorb a wide variety of experiences. It is difficult to respond to intuition and impulse within the long-term planning that the band needed. I felt I should look at\/learn about\/develop myself, my creative bits and pieces and pick up on a lot of work going on outside music.\u201d Certainly, the next decade became a time of discovery for Gabriel &#8211; personal and musical. On the musical side, he began releasing a series of four self-titled albums , which his fans have since provided with their own nicknames (\u201cCar\u201d (1977), \u201cScratch\u201d (1977), \u201cMelt\u201d (1979) and \u201cSecurity\u201d (1982)). While several of the solo albums include charting singles, it was Gabriel\u2019s fifth album, So (1986), that gave him his first and only number one hit &#8211; \u201cSledgehammer.\u201d With an irresistible groove, a horn part straight from Stax, and brilliant production, \u201cSledgehammer\u201d transformed Gabriel from an edgy seventies rocker into a eighties pop superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Although \u201cSledgehammer\u201d would turn out to be a massive success, appealing to a large and diverse audience, Gabriel did not have such grand intentions with the track when he began.. Gabriel reflected on the song\u2019s success in 2012 explaining:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith \u201cSledgehammer,\u201d everyone thinks, \u201cOh, he must have created that to get a hit.\u201d And it wasn\u2019t done that way. In fact, Tony Levin reminded me that he was packing his bags to go home, and I called him back into the studio, saying \u201cI\u2019ve got this one idea that maybe we can fool around with for the next record \u2013 but I like the feel.\u201d That was \u201cSledgehammer.\u201d It was late in the day and we just fell into the groove, landed a beautiful drum track on it, a great bass line and it all came together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song certainly does come together, bringing innovative sounds and diverse influences into one incredible track. It opens with a synthesized Japanese shakuhachi flute sample, played on Gabriel\u2019s Fairlight CMI. Pulling from his progressive rock roots, the free flowing flute sound draws the listener quietly in before the horn section dramatically announces the onset of the song\u2019s magnetic groove. Drummer Manu Katche captures a funk influence with an eighties pop of the gated reverb snare. Tony Levin\u2019s bass line is exciting and catchy, while also sounding impossibly smooth. The classic fretless tone is paired with the attack of a pic, giving it that bright and rhythmic edge. He runs this through an octave pedal, giving it that modern sound. The guitars provide the funky yet stable core that allow the active bassline to take center stage.<\/p>\n<p>Undeniably critical to this entire mix is the soul influence and energy of the horn section. Expressing his excitement about having Wayne Jackson &#8211; who had played in the house band at Stax records and toured with Otis Redding &#8211; play trumpet for the track, Gabriel told WMMR Radio in 1986:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cas a teenager, soul music was one of the things that made me want to be a musician. It was really passionate and exciting\u2026 Wayne Jackson, who plays on that track, was also with Otis Redding and was touring with him when I saw them in London. So that was a thrill for me, just to get a whole lot of fan stories. But I think the song was more influenced by many of those Stax and Atlantic tracks rather than Otis particularly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47621 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1.jpg\" alt=\"peter gabriel1\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1-20x20.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/peter-gabriel1-385x385.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The horns are one of the most powerful elements of the song, linking a largely modern eighties sound to the classic color and rich history of soul music. \u201cThey came back with the horn parts and that was an exceptional moment. Everybody thought &#8216;Sledgehammer&#8217; was shaping up to be a really great song \u2014 even without the lyrics it was totally infectious\u201d explained engineer Kevin Killen. Sonically, the track was unstoppable, and the vocal additions took it even further.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel\u2019s vocal part was recorded in the control room of the studio, primarily because there were no lines of sight between the control room and the main-studio room. In fact, the entire studio wasn\u2019t a traditional space at all, but a home-studio which Gabriel converted from the barn at the Ashcombe House in Somerset (a Gothic revival country house, which he rented from 1978-1987). Despite its unconventional setting, Gabriel\u2019s phenomenal vocals on the song would earn him a Grammy nomination in 1986 for Best Male Rock Vocal. Backing vocals by P.P. Arnold, Coral Gordon and Dee Lewis further linked the contemporary sound of the track with its soul influence, helping to unify the diverse sonic elements and techniques that make up the song.<\/p>\n<p>The track was co-produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois, after the pair had worked together on Gabriel\u2019s soundtrack for Alan Parker\u2019s 1985 film Birdy. On So, and in particular \u201cSledgehammer\u201d Lanois created modern and unconventional sonic colors by combining instruments in innovative ways. Killen explained:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring recording, Dan really liked this idea of combining instruments to create a new part,\u201d &#8220;So, it wasn&#8217;t unusual to have Dan playing a 12\u2010string electric guitar, David Rhodes playing his Steinberger six\u2010string guitar or Strat, and Peter playing the CP70, Fairlight or Prophet 5. Instead of their instruments being recorded to three discrete tracks, all of them were treated as a single sound source and recorded to a mono or stereo track to create a sound illusion\/part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These novel approaches to both analog and digital sounds and instruments created a fresh and exciting track that merged Gabriel\u2019s creativity and artistic exploration into an eighties pop soundworld.<\/p>\n<p>In the decade leading up to So, Gabriel had established himself as an unconventional rock artist, who was more interested in exploring possibilities than creating the next hit track. But with \u201cSledgehammer,\u201d Gabriel\u2019s diverse sound world came together to create a commercially accessible song that was also exciting and innovative. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he looked back at the elements that made the whole album so popular, saying \u201cThere was less sort of esoteric songwriting. I think they were simpler songs in some ways, but I think we caught a wave. They were done with passion and we had a really good team working on them. Then, of course, we had things like the \u201cSledgehammer\u201d video, which helped enormously. It got us a wider audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47619 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-scaled.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-20x15.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-scaled-808x606.jpg 808w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-385x289.jpg 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sledgehammer-4K-Stills-004-1540x1155.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly, the music video further catapulted a song, already poised for success, into the mainstream spotlight. The innovative and captivating video won nine MTV Music Video Awards in 1987, and remains one of the most played videos in MTV history. The song itself held the number one spot in the US and Canada and hit number four on the UK Singles Chart. It also helped earn Gabriel three Grammy nominations in 1986 including Song of the Year. With \u201cSledgehammer\u201d Gabriel launched an already impressive career into mainstream stardom &#8211; which he viewed as a mixed blessing. He called Top 40 success \u201ca wonderful place to visit and a hellish place to live.\u201d In fact, rather than capitalizing on the massive popularity of \u201cSledgehammer\u201d and So, Gabriel waited another six years after So before releasing his next album, Us (1992).<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel\u2019s ambitious and innovative contributions to music have earned him two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame &#8211; as a member of Genesis in 2010, and as a solo artist in 2014 &#8211; along with an impressive list of other awards and achievements. \u201cSledgehammer\u201d has remained Gabriel\u2019s only number one record but its legacy extends beyond its peak chart status. 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