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TIL: That whilst shooting the music video for Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time. "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."

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