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When Peter Gabriel released Scratch My Back in 2010, cover versions performed by an artist, which normally has the feel of creativity poverty and a terrible aching of lack of substance, was turned on its head and given fresh, bold and enjoyable lease of life.

The original idea for artists to return the favour and put as much spin as they could on the gabrielesque lyrics may have taken longer than the project intended but time is something that never seems to worry the man who has thrilled generations of fans over and over again. What matters is the final product, the accumulation of ideas and threads into one neat and absorbing packaging. Now Scratch My Back has its companion, the excellent and rightly titled And I’ll Scratch Yours.