Lyrics | Artists | Everything but the Girl

+5

Images

Everything but the Girl

Taking their name from a local furniture shop, Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn first performed together at Hull University where they were students. They went their separate ways after college—Tracey Thorn as a member of the band Marine Girls and Ben Watt as a solo artist—but in 1982 the duo made their recording debut together under the Everything but the Girl moniker on a cover of Cole Porter's "Night and Day." They eventually gave up their individual projects to form Everything but the Girl (EBTG) and released debut album Eden in 1984. The duo demonstrated versatility across music ge...