Complex sentence: Yorke asked "Bagpuss" creator Oliver Postgate to create a music video for lead single "There There", but Postgate, who was retired, declined; instead, a stop-motion animation video was created by Chris Hopewell.
Split into simpler sentences: Yorke asked "Bagpuss" creator Oliver Postgate to create a music video for lead single "There There", but Postgate, who was retired, declined. Instead, a stop-motion animation video was created by Chris Hopewell.