Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!'

Peter Gabriel's bleak new album of cover versions has divided fans and the featured bands. He tells Jude Rogers about Radiohead's reaction – and why he's releasing music each lunar cycleI am running late to meet Peter Gabriel, the sapphire-eyed former prog rocker, world-music ambassador and MTV-friendly pop star. On the west London street where we are to meet, a bald man with a small belly is on his mobile phone, looking like a cab driver ordering a pizza. I go to ask him directions, and Peter...

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13:41 on June 2 2010

Elbow – “Mercy Street” (Peter Gabriel Cover)

Stereogum — The reciprocal part of Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back project moves forward with Elbow’s cover of “Mercy Street” (from Gabriel’s 1986 album So). Says Elbow’s... more info

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20:30 on June 2 2010

Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!'

Guardian Music — Peter Gabriel's bleak new album of cover versions has divided fans and the featured bands. He tells Jude Rogers about Radiohead's reaction – and why he's releasing musi... more info