Take a look behind the scenes of the stop-motion visual, made in collaboration with Dhani Harrison
Finn Wolfhard and George Harrison are bringing you peace on Earth this holiday season — or at least, they’re sharing a very sincere wish for it, via the first-ever music video for the late artist’s classic single “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” off 1973’s Living in the Material World. Rolling Stone has the exclusive look behind the scenes of the stop-motion visual, which dropped last week.
The whimsical video follows Harrison on a trip (in more ways than one) through Friar Park, where he lived and worked after the end of the Beatles. It’s an ode to both Harrison’s love of gardening and his musical career, as he was known for lovingly tending to his Friar Park plots, often referring to himself as “just a gardener.” You can watch the folks at Nobody Told Me Studios and Tye Down Pictures and a team of 20 stop-motion artists bringing Wolfhard’s vision to life in the exclusive clip. “I storyboarded it,” says Wolfhard in the video. “[But] I’m not the one everyday moving everything.” The video was executive-produced by George’s son, Dhani Harrison, and David Zonshine.
“Finn is one of the sweetest and most talented people I know of his generation, and he is the perfect person to direct a video for my dad,” Dhani said in a release. “My dad would have loved this, and I hope his wonderful, creative, heartfelt ideas help this song reach another generation.” Wolfhard is currently starring in the final season of Stranger Things, as well as The Legend of Ochi, a cuddly creature feature that also boasted some particularly incredible practical effects.
The Harrison estate released a reissue of Living in the Material World in 2024, one year past the 50th anniversary of the album that Rolling Stone called a “slept-on masterpiece worth rediscovering.” The record sees Harrison feeling disillusioned by his religious heroes and mourning the loss of his mother. The new edition was remixed by engineer Paul Hicks, who also did the 2019 All Things Must Pass box set, with a bonus disc of alternate takes.
