Animated music videos were becoming quite common in the late 80's. The trend started with A-Ha's adventurous "Take On Me" and Peter Gabriel's claymation-heavy clips for "Sledgehammer" & "Big Time", and continued with Elton John's "Club at the End of the Street". Tom Petty, a label-mate of John's at the time, decided to take this route with "Runnin' Down a Dream", which was the 3rd single from his solo debut, "Full Moon Fever", in 1989.
Co-written by Petty with Heartbreakers guitarist and frequent writing partner Mike Campbell and Traveling Wilburys bandmate Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra), "Runnin'" pays homage to one of the more surreal comic strips of the Golden Age, Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. The Heartbreakers appear in a very brief cameo. Uploaded by the band's VEVO channel:
Enough said.
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