Bowie Said No
British musician Peter Gabriel is not going to release the album in which he planned to incorporate the variety of cover songs. Basically, the album “I’ll Scratch Yours” had to cover his original “Scratch My Back” by specifically chosen musicians, noted The Guardian. The main reason for this unsuccessful outcome was caused by other artists who have decided not to participate in the project. Particularly, one of the biggest musicians who will not take his part in this game is David Bowie. As Gabriel said in the recent interview to Rolling Stone magazine, Bowie had lost any interest in music and due to this strange thing his song “Heroes” will be recorded by Brian Eno who was it’s original co-author. Also, if following various rumors, Arcade Fire had withdrawn it’s flag from Peter Gabriel’s recording stash. Pitchfork notices that the band shall not cover Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers”, thus totally failing his idea to make it up in 2010. All of these factors have eventually led to the fact that “I’ll Scratch Yours” will not be released as one album, but should be divided into singles and only in this way may hit the stores. First two songs from “I’ll Scratch Yours” - “Biko” performed by Paul Simon and “Not One of Us” by The Magnetic Fields are already available at the iTunes. The rest of them including “Wallflower” by Radiohead should come out in the nearest time. Ex-Genesis leader Peter Gabriel had released “Scratch My Back” on February 12, which turned to be his eighth studio album in his solo career. This album consists of numerous and famous covers of Radiohead, Elbow, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Bowie, Neil Young and many others.