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The new album, due for release early next year, will be a song swapshop, with a range of top-flight artists covering each other's material.

The Scratch My Back project had its roots at the last Womad festival when Gabriel teamed up with a string section to perform Paul Simon's The Boy In The Bubble.

New Zealand born musician and arranger John Metcalfe, who worked on some orchestral reinterpretations for the record, revealed to BBC 6 Music that the CD is currently being mixed, and it’s very much an acoustic outing, with no guitars, drums or world instruments involved. He added teasingly "I'm not allowed to say who just yet, but there are some very, very famous singers and bands involved."

Fans on Peter Gabriel message-boards have pounced upon a Scratch My Back track-list posted by a Japanese distributor.

Alleged track-list:

1. Heroes (David Bowie)

2. Street Spirit (Radiohead)

3. The Book of Love (Magnetic Fields)

4. Flume (Bon Iver)

5. My Body Is a Cage (Arcade Fire)

6. Listening Wind (Talking Heads)

7. I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman)

8. Après Moi (Regina Spektor or Eartha Kitt)

9. Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)

10. The Boy in the Bubble (Paul Simon)

11. The Power of the Heart (Lou Reed)

12. Philadelphia (Neil Young)

13. Mirrorball (Elbow)

Source: BBC News

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