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Described as "a very personal record", Peter Gabriel's forthcoming February 15 album Scratch My Back features just the former Genesis frontman's distinctive voice and some gorgeous orchestrated arrangements in his interpretation of a dozen covers from the likes of Radiohead ("Street Spirit (Fadout)"), Regina Spektor ("Apres Moi"), David Bowie ("Heroes") and Paul Simon ("The Boy In the Bubble"). This project has been in the works now for a few years with one of the tracks - "The Book of Love" from Magnetic Fields - dating back to '05 soundtrack for the movie Shall We Dance.


"The songs are not simply covers," composer/arranger John Metcalfe told the BBC. "They are major reinterpretations of some famous stuff. It's quite radical." There's speculation that a follow up album - I'll Scratch Yours - will be coming later with these same artists doing songs from the Peter Gabriel songbook. Famed producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd's The Wall, Lou Reed) was behind the board for Scratch My Back with engineer Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow.) 


Poster: A.Speedy Bullet

1.Heroes
2.The Boy in the Bubble
3.Mirrorball
4.Flume
5.Listening Wind
6.The Power of the Heart
7.My Body Is a Cage
8.The Book of Love
9.I Think Its Going to Rain Today
10.Apres Moi
11.Philadelphia
12.Street Spirit (Fade Out)