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Infobox musical artist | name = Everything but the Girl| image = EBTG.jpg| caption = Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, 1996| image_size = 12.2 KB| background = group_or_band| alias = EBTG| origin = Kingston upon Hull|Hull , East Riding of Yorkshire , England | genre = Alternative rock , New Wave music|New Wave , Sophisti-pop , Lounge music|Lounge , Trip hop , Alternative dance , House music|House , Chill out music|Chill out , Dance music|Dance , Pop rock , Ambient music|Ambient , Electronic music|Electronic , Smooth jazz , Electro (music)|Electro | years_active = 1982–2000| label = Atlantic Records|Atlantic , Blanco y Negro Records|Blanco y Negro , Virgin Records|Virgin | associated_acts = Marine Girls , Ben Watt#Lazy Dog|Lazy Dog | website = http://www.ebtg.co.uk| current_members = Tracey Thorn Ben Watt | past_members = Everything but the Girl (often shortened EBTG ) was a two-person English people|English musical ensemble|band , formed in Kingston upon Hull|Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist , and singer Ben Watt . The duo's most successful single was a Todd Terry remix of " Missing (Everything but the Girl song)|Missing " charting in several countries in 1994.
They are currently inactive, although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may perform again someday. They have not performed publicly since 2000. cite web |first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p4209/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by Jason Ankeny |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=17 July 2009
Watt and Thorn are also a couple; they are very private about their relationship and personal life. It was not a publicised fact for some time that they were a couple, or that they had married subsequently. http://www.salon.com/ent/music/int/1999/09/28/everything/index.html Salon.com The duo have expressed a strong desire to raise their three children with as much privacy as possible.
Early career
The pair each had solo album releases through Cherry Red: Thorn's 1982 LP was A Distant Shore , an eight-track mini-album. Watt's LP was entitled North Marine Drive .
They formed a duo and adopted their name, "Everything but the Girl," from the slogan of the well-known Hull shop Turner's http://maps.google.com/maps? f=q& source=s_q& hl=en& geocode=& q=Beverley+Road,+Kingston+upon+Hull,+United+Kingdom& sll=37.0625,-95.677068& sspn=50.644639,114.169922& ie=UTF8& hq=& hnear=Beverley+Rd,+Hull,+United+Kingdom& ll=53.749444,-0.347214& spn=0.037253,0.111494& z=14& layer=c& cbll=53.749551,-0.347258& panoid=CI4nW1NHADCuZLgtBVAdjw& cbp=12,75,,0,-6.02 Beverley Road, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom - Google Maps. Maps.google.com (1970-01-01). Retrieved on 2012-05-11. Furniture, on Beverley Road . The store had originally built a window sign that read, "for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl," http://www.amazon.com/Everything-But-the-Girl/e/B000AQU3GA Amazon.com the last part of which was later added to the shop's main signage.
Everything but the Girl
EBTG's debut single (music)|single , a cover version of Cole Porter 's " Night and Day (song)|Night and Day ," was released during June 1982. After steady sales and exposure from the Pillows & Prayers compilation album , the single was re-issued in August 1983. Their first album was released in 1984 in the United Kingdom|UK as Eden (Everything But the Girl album)|Eden . In 1984, they also released the singles "Mine" and "Native Land" in the UK. Their first UK successful single, "Each and Every One," had a jazz y sound, and EBTG was considered part of the jazz/ pop music|popular music style known as " sophisti-pop " that included other United Kingdom|British acts like Swing Out Sister , Sade (band)|Sade , Matt Bianco , and The Style Council , on whose Café Bleu album they guested. EBTG and Sade both worked with record producer Robin Millar and audio engineering|engineers Ben Rogan and Mike Pela for their debut albums.
Although Eden was released in the UK, a different recording, Everything But the Girl (album)|Everything But the Girl , was released in the United States . The U.S. release contained about half the tracks from Eden , along with some different tracks, including "Mine" and "Native Land".
Subsequent releases underscored EBTG's versatility and range. Their 1985 album Love Not Money included a cover version of The Pretenders ' song "Kid," which was not on the original UK release.
The next year they released the self-produced Baby the Stars Shine Bright , an album of original popular music songs recorded with an orchestra . They revealed the album's inspiration by their choices of A-side and B-side|B-sides for its single releases: songs from Bacharach and Jimmy Webb on the Gramophone record|12" versions (as well as a cover version of Patsy Cline 's " I Fall to Pieces "). The first single from the album was "Come On Home," followed by "Don't Leave Me Behind."
During 1988, EBTG released Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album)|Idlewild , a collection of songs that began a trend towards " middle of the road (music)|middle-of-the-road ," adult-oriented contemporary music. A cover version of Danny Whitten 's " I Don't Want to Talk About It ," previously a success by Rod Stewart , was released as a single. It achieved a strong position in the UK Singles Chart and was added to the latter issues of the album. Around this time, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions asked Thorn to contribute vocals to the song "Big Snake" on their final recording studio|studio album Mainstream (Lloyd Cole album)|Mainstream .
Tommy Lipuma produced the band's 1990 album The Language of Life , which featured the single "Driving." Stan Getz contributed a tenor saxophone|tenor sax solo on the song "The Road." Next was Worldwide (Everything but the Girl album)|Worldwide and its single "Old Friends" in 1991.
In 1992, they produced another successful UK single with the release of the Covers Extended play|EP The lead track was " Love Is Strange ", and the Extended play|EP featured cover versions of Bruce Springsteen 's "Tougher Than the Rest"; Cyndi Lauper 's " Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song)|Time after Time " and Elvis Costello 's " Alison (song)|Alison ". These four tracks were included on the U.S. only album, Acoustic (Everything but the Girl album)|Acoustic . In 1993, EBTG released a cover version of Paul Simon 's " The Only Living Boy in New York " as a single in the UK.
The duo was forced to curtail sound recording and reproduction|recording and concert tour|touring for a few years when Watt contracted Churg-Strauss syndrome , an autoimmune disease (he subsequently wrote a memoir, Patient (memoir)|Patient , about his ordeal). The next work of original music was not until 1994, when EBTG released Amplified Heart . Producer Todd Terry remix ed the track " Missing (Everything but the Girl song)|Missing ", and when EBTG released the remix as a single, it became an international success. It reached the top ten around the world, including the US, where it peaked at #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 .
The success of that track, along with a collaboration Thorn had with Massive Attack and Deep Dish , influenced them and helped usher the band into a more electronic music|electronic sound. Having completed recording contract|contractual obligations to WEA, they were free to shop their recordings and had complete ownership of their future recorded works. They signed licensing deals with Virgin Records for the United Kingdom and Europe, and Atlantic Records for the United States and Canada. Their subsequent albums Walking Wounded and Temperamental , showed the band's musical progress as well as establishing Watt as a dance music producer. Between the two albums he produced "Stars All Seem To Weep" for Beth Orton .
The group curated compilations of their material in 2002 and 2005, but there have been no new recordings as Everything But the Girl since 1999. According to Thorn, the group is "currently mothballed". http://www.facebook.com/traceythorn4ever Tracey Thorn. Facebook (2012-04-12). Retrieved on 2012-05-11. Watt played guitar and other instruments for some filmed performances of Thorn's solo material in 2010 which have appeared on YouTube.
In an April 2011 interview, Thorn was questioned about whether she would work together with Watt, and do more Everything But The Girl. Thorn responded, "Yes, we do keep saying we are nearly ready to maybe do some work together again. There are certain obstacles, some practical, some psychological, that we would need to overcome. But it may well happen." http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/interviews/tracey-thorn-i-dont-obsess-over-sleeves-or-vinyl Tracey Thorn: ‘I Don’t Obsess Over Sleeves Or Vinyl’ | Interviews | DIY. Thisisfakediy.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-11.
In October 2011, Thorn released a cover version of the xx 's Night Time, on which Watt played guitar and sang backing vocals. This was their first recording together in a decade, although it was not an Everything But The Girl release. http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44341-listen-everything-but-the-girl-reunite-to-cover-the-xxs-night-time/ Listen: Everything But the Girl Reunite to Cover the xx's "Night Time" | News. Pitchfork (2011-10-18). Retrieved on 2012-05-11.
Ben Watt announced on Twitter in February 2012 that the first four albums Eden (Everything But the Girl album)|Eden , Love Not Money , Baby the Stars Shine Bright and Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album)|Idlewild will be reissued as "deluxe" double CDs in 2012, including demo recordings.https://twitter.com/#!/buzzin_fly/status/165167607006248961
Batman Forever Soundtrack – " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game " (with Massive Attack)
Back to Mine – tracks selected by Everything But the Girl
'' She's Having a Baby soundtrack - Apron Strings
In 1996, EBTG contributed to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization , performing " Corcovado (song)|Corcovado " (Quiet Night of Quiet Stars).
Watt has concentrated on being a Disc jockey|DJ and producer/ remix er, finding success as one half of Ben Watt#Lazy Dog|Lazy Dog with partner Jay Hannan, before going solo and launching Buzzin Fly records and The Neighborhood (a dance club). He has helped to produce two albums for Beth Orton . His latest track, "Guinea Pig", came out in 2008 and incorporated the vocals of Julia Biel.
During late spring 2005, Thorn recorded her first vocals in three years, on the song "Damage" on the album, Eat Books , for the Germany|German band Tiefschwarz , for which she also wrote the lyrics and melody .
Thorn's second full solo album, Out of the Woods was released in March 2007. Her third solo album, Love and Its Opposite was released in 2010.
Their most recent release is a double album of remixes, highlighting their electronica-influenced music including a trio of newly commissioned remixes.
Discography
main|Everything but the Girl discography
Eden (Everything But the Girl album)|Eden (1984)
Everything but the Girl (album)|Everything but the Girl (US only) (1984)
Love Not Money (1985)
Baby the Stars Shine Bright (1986)
Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album)|Idlewild (1988)
The Language of Life (1990)
Worldwide (Everything but the Girl album)|Worldwide (1991)
Acoustic (Everything but the Girl album)|Acoustic (1992)
Amplified Heart (1994)
Walking Wounded (1996)
Temperamental (Everything but the Girl album)|Temperamental (1999)
Adapt or Die - Ten Years of Remixes (Everything but the Girl album)|Adapt or Die Ten Years of Remixes (2005)
References
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External links
http://www.ebtg.co.uk Official website
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