No, it was not the first video by far to accompany a song. MTV had existed for a good five years by the time Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” came out in 1986. Nevertheless, this was a game-changer. Combining a number of techniques that had been tried out tentatively before, this video would become the definition of what the term “Music-Video” would mean in the future. It featured heavily in MTV’s then-famous self-referential clips. It required Peter, at the time still mostly of Genesis-fame, to spend 16 hours lying under a glass sheet and it won 9 MTV awards in 1987, to this day the most any video ever won.