Tracey Thorn New Single. Cover of Kate Bush song. // Fri 23rd Jan 2015: 3h03 GMT Tracey has released a cover version of Kate Bush's Under The Ivy on my imprint Strange Feeling. It was recorded especially for BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme, Today, for which Tracey was guest editor on Dec 27, and it is now a single. Ben Watt plays piano on the recording. Beautiful strings written by Nick Ingman too! Buy direct , or buy on iTunes . No vinyl or CD. Tracey's new column for The New Statesman // Sun 31st Aug 2014: 9h09 GMT As she puts the finishing touches to her follow-up book to 2013's 'Bedsit Disco Queen' due next Spring, Tracey has been writing a regular column for The New Statesman. If you want to catch up on all her columns and read her on a regular basis, go here New book and film music.

// Mon 24th Mar 2014: 5h05 GMT Tracey is currently in the final stages of writing her new non-fiction book all about ideas and myths around singers and singing which she hopes to have published by Virago in 2015. She has also written, performed and sung new music and songs for the soundtrack of 'The Falling', the first feature film by English director Carol Morley (pictured), who made the brilliant semi-documentary 'Dreams of Life.' Hear Tracey read her new essay on Germaine Greer for the BBC. // Sat 1st Feb 2014: 8h08 GMT Asked to write and read something for BBC's 'The Book that Changed Me', Tracey chose Germaine Greer's 'The Female Eunuch'. A deep influence on her lyrics and thinking ever since, hear her read her new 15 min essay here .

Molly Drake songs to be released for Record Store Day 2014 // Fri 31st Jan 2014: 7h07 GMT Following the popularity of Tracey's performances of two Molly Drake songs for BBC Radio 4 recently, the tracks will be release as a special 7" vinyl single for Record Store Day 2104 on April 19, and then later as a digital download. Molly Drake was Nick Drake's mum. Tracey's partner in Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt, plays electric piano and guitar on the recordings. Tracey sings songs of Molly Drake for BBC Radio 4 // Thu 21st Nov 2013: 4h04 GMT Journalist Pete Paphides has made a half-hour documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the mother of acclaimed folk singer, Nick Drake. Molly Drake wrote her own songs which until recently were unknown to the general public. Alongside Nick's sister, actress Gabriella Drake, and producer Joe Boyd, Tracey takes part in the programme; she talks about Molly's songwriting and sings two of her songs accompanied by Ben Watt. Listen again for seven days here .

More readings and interviews announced for 'Bedsit Disco Queen' // Sun 12th May 2013: 8h08 GMT Tracey had added more dates to her tour for her ace memoir 'Bedsit Disco Queen'. Hear her read and chat in interview at the following - Wed May 15 - Bristol, Festival of Ideas Fri May 24 - Dublin, Writers' Festival Sun June 02 - London, Literature Festival Wed June 12 - Hull, Pave Sat June 22 - Hebden Bridge, Arts Festival Sat July 20 - Southwold, Latitude Festival Sun Aug 18 - Edinburgh, International Books Festival Sun Oct 13 - Cheltenham, Literary Festival Tracey live Q&A's for Bedsit Disco Queen // Thu 10th Jan 2013: 8h08 GMT Tracey will be in conversation about her new memoir Bedsit Disco Queen at the following events.

Tickets are available for most: Feb 7th - Launch at Rough Trade East Feb 13th - New Writing South, Brighton Feb 19th - UEA Literary Festival, Norwich Feb 27th - Virago Book Club at Foyles, London 6th April - Laugharne Weekend, Wales 12th April - Aye Write! Glasgow Book Festival 13th April - Cambridge Word Fest 2nd May - Liverpool Sound City Tracey's new memoir 'Bedsit Disco Queen' is published on Feb 7 // Wed 9th Jan 2013: 1h01 GMT Starting with her first teenage band, 'Bedsit Disco Queen' charts Tracey's journey through the music industry through her own eyes. Published by Virago you can order it through Amazon (UK) or Amazon (US). In Tracey's words: 'I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.

Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.' Tracey on NPR's World Cafe on Dec 24 // Mon 17th Dec 2012: 6h06 GMT On Dec 24 Tracey's latest acoustic session and interview can be heard on National Public Radio’s prestigious World Cafe show with host David Dye on over 200 North American stations nationwide.

Fans can find their local station and broadcast time here or worldwide fans can connect to the WXPN Philadelphia stream Monday through Friday, 2pm to 4pm EST, here . Late in the day of broadcast, NPR will feature it as the "Current Show" on the World Cafe website and post the audio stream, here . Tracey's Online Advent Calendar // Sat 1st Dec 2012: 1h01 GMT We've made an advent calendar to get you in the mood for Christmas. Each day features a festive link to pics and clips and exclusive stuff connected with Tracey's ace current album 'Tinsel and Lights'. Happy Christmas. Check it out here 'Joy' to be new single from 'Tinsel and Lights' on Dec 10 // Wed 14th Nov 2012: 7h07 GMT ‘Joy' is the second single to be released from Tracey's acclaimed album of modern and retro Christmas classics, 'Tinsel and Lights’.

The stand-out track for many writers reviewing the album ( **** The Guardian, **** Uncut, **** Q), it is a Tracey Thorn original that stands among her finest songs, ‘recasting Christmas,’ writes Jim Writh in Uncut ‘as a desperate, defiant celebration of life’. A video for the song is being shot in the centre of one of Christmas’ quintessential locations – Lille Christmas Market in Northern France. A new stripped-back acoustic version with Tracey’s long-time musical partner, Ben Watt, on guitar, is also included as part of the release. 'Tinsel and Lights' Christmas card set // Wed 7th Nov 2012: 5h05 GMT Look! Get yourself an ace 'Tinsel and Lights' Christmas card set. Five limited editions cards all drawn from the artwork for Tracey's current album. Only £6.50. Buy here . Sneak an upfront listen to 'Tinsel and Lights' courtesy of WNYC // Wed 24th Oct 2012: 10h10 GMT Ace New York radio station WNYC is preview-streaming Tinsel and Lights this week. Sneak an upfront listen here.

Double A-Side digital single from 'Tinsel and Lights' out now // Tue 23rd Oct 2012: 10h10 GMT A unique transatlantic double A-side single from 'Tinsel and Lights' is released today. UK fans can get 'In The Cold, Cold Night' on iTunes now, while US fans can buy the title track 'Tinsel and Lights' . You will not be asked to buy the tracks again if you complete your album purchase on iTunes next week when the whole album is released. It's here! The gorgeous deluxe vinyl gift set of Tracey's Christmas album 'Tinsel and Lights' // Fri 12th Oct 2012: 3h03 GMT Heavy 180gm vinyl, bonus track not on CD, inner sleeve, standard fully-artworked CD, set of five Christmas cards, one sheet of giftwrap, hard box. Pre-order it or get the standard CD or iTunes version here 'In The Cold, Cold Night' streaming on YouTube // Wed 3rd Oct 2012: 4h04 GMT It's been on Soundcloud, it's been on the radio.

Now you can hear Tracey's new single 'In The Cold, Cold Night' on YouTube 'Tinsel and Lights' song premiere at RollingStone.com // Sat 29th Sep 2012: 5h05 GMT Following the premiere at Guardian.co.uk last week of 'In The Cold, Cold Night' (the first track to be pulled from Tracey's upcoming Christmas album, 'Tinsel and Lights' and now on preview in the Listen section of this site), you can now hear another courtesy of RollingStone.com. Check it here Pre-order and preview Tracey's Christmas album // Mon 24th Sep 2012: 10h10 GMT Tracey's Christmas album 'Tinsel and Lights' will be out Oct 29/30 but we have early previews and pre-orders available now at the Buzzin' Fly online shop for the standard CD, the deluxe vinyl gift set and the iTunes version. Jump here for more info.

North American fans should check out the Merge Records versions too Official news of Tracey's Christmas album // Thu 2nd Aug 2012: 7h07 GMT Pitchfork announce tracklist, release date with front cover artwork here Big interview with Tracey in The Word this month // Wed 13th Jun 2012: 2h02 GMT Catch up with Tracey chatting to David Hepworth about the EBTG re-issues, life on Twitter, singing live, her new upcoming Christmas album and her new book. Tracey's alternative Christmas album // Fri 25th May 2012: 1h01 GMT Tracey has been in the studio over the past few weeks putting together her alternative Christmas album for release later this year. It is largely cover versions all with a 'winter' theme plus two new originals, and features songs by writers such as Stephen Merritt, Ron Sexsmith, Jack White and Randy Newman. As with 'Love And Its Opposite' the album will be released on Strange Feeling except in the US where Merge will handle it.

The album is being produced by Ewan Pearson, and Tracey's longtime EBTG partner, Ben Watt is guesting on guitars and piano. Expected release date - late October/early November. Signed copies of 'Love And Its Opposite' // Fri 25th Nov 2011: 15h15 GMT Fresh stock of Tracey's classic 2010 album, 'Love And Its Opposite' on CD has just arrived, and Tracey has signed a load of them! They are on sale now on the Buzzin' Fly online shop. Brighten someone's Christmas! Only £10.99. (Unsigned stock also on sale at £7.99.). Get them here . New compilation out this week // Wed 9th Nov 2011: 8h08 GMT Gathering together all the remixes and B-sides that have accompanied the singles released from her acclaimed 2010 album 'Love And Its Opposite' and throwing in her new 'Night Time' single for good measure, this week sees the release of Tracey's new digital-only collection 'Extended Plays 2010-2011'.

Highlights include covers of Vampire Weekend's 'Taxi Cab', Sufjan Stevens' 'Sister Winter' and The xx's 'Night Time' (especially commissioned by The xx themselves) plus a slew of remixes from stellar underground names from the house and bass music scenes such as Morgan Geist, Visionquest, Walls and Black Acre's Blue Daisy. Get it direct from us here . Pre-order and hear 'Night Time EP' // Mon 17th Oct 2011: 17h17 GMT Limited edition signed blue vinyl copies of the 'Night Time EP' are now for sale on the Buzzin' Fly and Strange Feeling Online Shop . You can also pre-order the download version from iTunes . Tracey covers The xx on new EP // Sun 2nd Oct 2011: 19h19 GMT In the summer of 2010 Mercury Music Prize winners (and Everything But The Girl fans) The xx asked Tracey Thorn and her long-time partner in EBTG Ben Watt (also Strange Feeling label boss) to record a track from the The xx's debut album for a special compilation the band were commissioning of covers of the album's songs by their favourite artists.

Unfortunately the project fell apart a few months later for numerous logistical reasons (not least the second wind breathed into the original album by the Mercury Prize victory) but not before Tracey had sung a new version of one the album most beautiful tracks, 'Night Time'. The track gathered dust for a few months but it is rightfully seeing the light of day on a new EP from Tracey Thorn called the 'Night Time EP', released on Strange Feeling on October 31, much to the delight of all concerned. The flip side will feature new mixes of 'Swimming' from 'Love And Its Opposite'. Audio clips soon. Free download // Thu 5th May 2011: 11h11 GMT Quick bit of trivia for you. Did you know the title track of Tracey Thorn's new EP 'You Are A Lover' was written by another band on Strange Feeling, The Unbending Trees? We have an ace remix of The Unbending Trees' original version for FREE download, plus a chance to peep at the new video re-edit made especially for the remix. Click to grab . Out tomorrow.

New EP for Record Store Day 2011 // Fri 15th Apr 2011: 20h20 GMT The gorgeous 10" green vinyl version of the 'You Are A Lover EP' is out tomorrow at an indie store near you. This is a limited edition collectors release. If we get any returns they will go on sale at the online Buzzin' Fly and Strange Feeling Shop in a couple of weeks. The digital version is out on Apr 26 through iTunes etc. Hear the Clock Opera remix of the new single 'You Are A Lover' for Record Store Day 2011 // Sat 26th Mar 2011: 22h22 GMT Following its exclusive premiere on The Guardian website, we now have the ace Clock Opera remix of 'You Are A Lover' streaming on the Buzzin' Fly/Strange Feeling Records listening page . Tune in.

New single 'You Are A Lover' for Record Store Day 2011 // Wed 16th Feb 2011: 11h11 GMT Tracey has a new single 'You Are A Lover' lined up for Record Store Day 2011 on April 16. Taken from her acclaimed current album 'Love And Its Opposite' the release features a brand new remix of the song by the brilliant Clock Opera (above). The B-side also includes Tracey's pre-Christmas free download 'Sister Winter' written by Sufjan Stevens on vinyl for the first time. The single will be be released on limited edition 10" vinyl. If you cannot get one from a local indie store near you, we will have some on sale online with international shipping. There will also be an MP3 download available a few days later through normal online retailers. Listen Everything But The Girl - Music on Google Play Everything But The Girl About the artist Everything but the Girl were an English musical duo, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt.

Everything But The Girl have received eight gold, and two platinum album BPI Certifications in the UK, and one gold album RIAA Certification in the US. They had four top ten singles and twelve top forty singles in the UK. Their biggest hit song Missing charted high in several countries and reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. They are currently inactive, although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may perform again someday. They have not performed publicly since 2000. Watt and Thorn are also a couple; they are very private about their relationship and personal life. For some time, it was not a publicised fact that they were a couple, or that they had married subsequently. 1 $9.49 Temperamental is the tenth and final album to date by British music duo Everything but the Girl. "Five Fathoms", "Temperamental", "Lullaby of Clubland", "Blame", and "The Future of the Future" were... 1 1 $9.49 Walking Wounded is a 1996 album by Everything but the Girl, their ninth studio release.

It is their highest charting album to date, reaching number 4 in the UK and number 37 in the US. This was the... Amplified Heart is the eighth studio album by Everything but the Girl. It was recorded and mixed in London during winter 1993/94. Photography was by Corinne Day. Primarily an acoustic-driven set, A... 1 1 $9.49 Acoustic is the seventh album by Everything but the Girl, released on 2 June 1992. The Worldwide & The Acoustic EP's were reissued together by Edsel Records as a 2-disc Deluxe Set in 2012. 1 1 $9.49 Worldwide is the sixth album by Everything but the Girl, released on 1 October 1991. The Worldwide & The Acoustic EP's were reissued together by Edsel Records as a 2-disc Deluxe Set in 2012. 1 1 $9.49 The Language of Life is the fifth album by Everything but the Girl, released on 5 February 1990. The cover shot was by Nick Knight. Tommy LiPuma had previously worked with artists like Miles Davis,...

1 1 $9.49 Idlewild is the fourth album by British music duo Everything but the Girl. It was released in 1988. Idlewild was reissued in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Edsel Records. 1 1 $9.49 Baby, the Stars Shine Bright is the third album by Everything but the Girl, released in 1986. Baby the Stars Shine Bright was reissued in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Edsel Records. 1 1 $9.49 Love Not Money is the second album by Everything but the Girl, released in 1985. Love Not Money was reissued in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Edsel Records. 1 1 $9.49 Eden is the debut album by Everything but the Girl, released in 1984. It contains their first UK Top 30 entry, the number 28 hit "Each and Every One". The cover design was by Tracey Thorn's former ...

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0 Tracey Thorn: the shy torch singer now turns to prose | Music | The Guardian The Observer profile Tracey Thorn: the shy torch singer now turns to prose As one half of Everything But the Girl, she spoke to lovelorn, idealistic students. Now her new memoir reveals a fine writer attuned to the vagaries of family life as much as fame Tracey Thorn: 'Gentle and courteous and incredibly aware of other people's feelings'. Photograph: Edward Bishop Saturday 19 January 2013 19.07 EST First published on Saturday 19 January 2013 19.07 EST Share on Messenger Close For those who live elsewhere, Hull might well mean John Prescott or, perhaps, the docks. To others, of a more melancholy bent, the city means the poet Philip Larkin, who worked at the university library for many years. And perhaps, depending on their age, it might also mean Tracey Thorn , the soulful songwriter and singer who studied English at the campus and also expressed herself in an austere verse style.

Thorn, who has come back to solo music-making in the last few years, has written a memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, published next month, and has recently found a new audience – both for her songs and for her beguiling Twitter comments . "Tracey was born knowing her own mind," Ben Watt, her musician husband, told the Observer this weekend. "I think she is half wallflower and half freedom fighter." Whether chronicling her domestic thoughts or battling against wrongs, Thorn is fully engaged with the world. On 2 January, she told her 35,000 followers that she was listening to Watt singing Pretty Woman in their kitchen and wondering if he was going "to attempt the growl" that Roy Orbison trademarked . "Readers, I can confirm that he did," she updated. Her 2010 album, Love and Its Opposite , received critical acclaim and was what she described as "a record about the person I am now and the people around me… about real life after 40." At the height of the success of Everything But the Girl, the duo she formed in Hull with Watt, their music vibrated with student disillusionment and thwarted love.

While Larkin had described Hull's "fishy smelling/ pastoral of ships up streets, the slave museum/ tattoo shops, consulates, grim head-scarved wives", Watt and Thorn's songs spoke to a whole generation of undergraduates, with their plaintive talk of the harm "done by just two minutes spent on the phone". The couple had named their band after a sign outside a furniture shop in Hull that suggested it would supply all customers bedroom needs, except the love interest. In 1984, when their first album, Eden, came out, EBTG hit the big time on the tide of new jazz that swept the music industry. As svelte singers, such as Sade, adopted sophisticated poses at the top of the charts, Thorn's voice penetrated the fashion of the day to communicate with delicate young souls. Her solo songs today are just as poignant, but her subjects have changed as she has approached her middle age as the mother of teenagers. Larkin's famously bleak injunction – "don't have any kids yourself" – now finds a compassionate echo in Thorn's song Oh, the Divorces! about the misery she has observed among couples with children who are splitting up.

"And each time I hear who's to part I examine my heart See how it stands Wonder if it's still in safe hands." "That is a heartrending song," says Guardian music writer Alexis Petridis. "There is a particularly well-observed line about watching 'the afternoon handovers by the swings'." Petridis is a fan of Thorn's writing style in the new memoir too. "She is able to view the world in a way that is unflashy and never showy and she captures a real sense of the changing eras. There is an ongoing 80s music revival at the moment, but, as with anything curated, it leaves lots of things out. Tracey gives a much better picture." Thorn's book will take readers back to the rollicking post-punk days of indie music, whether or not they lived through it themselves. Her musical story begins when, as a teenager growing up in Hertfordshire, she managed to get a record deal with the nascent Cherry Red label and so was introduced to the music industry from what Rough Trade Records' Geoff Travis recalls as the distinctly unglamorous end.

"Tracey was always a pleasure to work with," he told the Observer this weekend, adding that she was prepared to knuckle down and help during her days in her first band, Marine Girls . "One day she came into Rough Trade with a cake she had baked for Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities for his birthday and then she was put to work for the rest of the afternoon, sending out records or doing something like that." Later, through the offices of the A&R man Mike Alway, Travis signed both Thorn and Watt to the Blanco y Negro label. "I just love her voice," Travis explains. "It is a really underrated instrument, transmitting soul and a three-dimensional woman still sadly too rare in our musical landscape." Thorn's husband also remembers the first time he heard her sing. "It was Mike Alway who played me a record. 'I have this band you can listen to, the Marine Girls,' he said, and I heard Tracey's voice on it straight away, although it was quite concealed because she was not the lead singer." Watt also remembers Alway making an apt comparison.

"He said hearing her voice was a bit like going out to Hackney Marshes to watch some weekend footballers and then suddenly realising you are watching Pele play." In 1981, Watt went to see Thorn perform. "I still hadn't met her then but I was a fan," he said. The couple finally met in Hull as students. He was, she often suggests, posher than her and yet also more relaxed because he came from an arty, musical background. The two bonded over their record collections. But they also developed each other's tastes. While she liked the punky strains of Orange Juice or the Undertones, Watt was a fan of the wilder shores of pop and rock and of musicians such as Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt and Captain Beefheart. At first, Thorn has recalled, she mistook her future husband for an academic aesthete. Then she worked out that he had chosen his course of study entirely on the basis of finding the subjects that involved the least reading. Her feelings for Watt were only briefly threatened, it seems, by her sudden musical infatuation with Morrissey.

Alway had played her the Smiths' first single, Hand in Glove , in the summer of 1983, but it was Travis, who came up to Hull with an early copy of the Smiths' debut album, who sealed the deal. Thorn has admitted that a period of obsessive imitation followed, before eventually, after she had managed to establish a matey correspondence with Morrissey, she and Watt developed their own sound, moving away from the jazz influences of their first album. By the launch of the Labour party-supporting Red Wedge movement in November 1985, the duo were firmly positioned on the left wing of the music industry, appearing at a succession of fundraising gigs and rallies. Observer writer Sean O'Hagan, then working for the NME, accompanied the couple on a tour of Moscow following an invitation based on their political credentials. His cover story for the journal was illustrated with an image of Thorn and Watt as communist icons of the people. He says now: "Tracey was great. I expected someone very earnest because of EBTG's reputation – a group students in bedsits loved – and general right-on reputation, but she was great fun.

Liked a good party and a proper late night." EBTG's successful albums Idlewild and The Language of Life should have marked the middle phase of the band's career, but sadly, by the mid-1990s, Thorn and Watt had to stop touring and recording for several years after Watt was diagnosed with an auto-immune condition, Churg-Strauss syndrome . In 1995, a remix of the band's song Missing , taken from their eighth album, Amplified Heart, the previous year, prompted a rerelease, which saw the track become a bestseller around the world. Then, while Thorn developed a collaboration with the Bristol band Massive Attack, Watt moved towards dance music production. The couple now rarely play together, although Watt did play guitar and sing vocals on a track released by Thorn in 2011. This weekend, he said he has watched the resurgence of his wife's influence with some pride. "It is hard to speak about someone when you have been together for 30 years, but what I would say of the success of the last couple of years, and with Twitter and the book too, is they have unveiled a side to her that people didn't know existed.

People might have thought she was a distant figure with that lovely voice, but a very human side of her has been able to come over." Watt describes Thorn as "gentle and courteous and aware of other people's feelings", but he admits that even now he sometimes finds her quite scary "when she has got a point to make". The new book, he feels, is witty, but is marked by her peculiar style of "fierce humility". It is the heat that burns behind her songs and, Watt clearly believes, it has also fuelled their long relationship. "I think one of the reasons we have stayed together so long is that we are still slightly intimidated by each other," he said. She quit the music business to start a family at the height of Everything But the Girl's success – but then Tracey Thorn has never felt like 'a proper star', she tells Decca Aitkenhead Published: 10 Feb 2013 Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn performs an exclusive track from her third solo album, Love and its Opposite Published: 14 Apr 2010 They wrote sad songs, survived serious illness and fell out of love with pop. Now Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt are back.

Dorian Lynskey hears about their happy ending Published: 26 May 2010 This is a modest and sensitive memoir from the Everything But the Girl frontwoman and former Marine Girl, writer Zoe Williams Published: 24 Jan 2013 Tracey Thorn Pictures, News, Gossip & Rumours - AskMen AskMen Messages You have no messages Notifications You have no notifications Tracey Thorn Tracey Thorn Singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn has been the lead voice of the duo Everything But the Girl (EBTG) since they hooked up in 1982. With almost a dozen studio albums to their credit, EBTG's best-known song remains their international smash "Missing" from 1995. Some of their other hits include "Wrong" (1996), "The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)" (1998), "Five Fathoms (Love More)" (1999), and "Temperamental" (2000). Tracey also provided vocals for Massive Attack's Protection album in 1994. Appeal Tracey made it as a singer due to her raw talent as a vocalist and not because of her sex appeal.

If you're into thin, pale, melancholy-looking women then she's right up your alley. But what she lacks in physical sex appeal, her sultry voice makes up for it as a tool for seduction. Success It may have taken Everything But the Girl more than a decade to land their first real hit in the U.S., but when they did it turned out to be a record-breaking monster. The 1995 Todd Terry remix of "Missing" became the duo's first single to make the Billboard Hot 100 and it patiently climbed all the way to No. 2 over six months after it debuted. The single logged a total of 55 weeks on the chart making it the song with the longest chart run in history until Los Del Rio's ”Macarena” bettered that record by five weeks later the same year. "Missing" was also EBTG's biggest hit in Britain where it peaked at No. 3, as well as being a smash hit in many other countries the world over. Although initially known for their folk pop/pseudo-jazz styling, Tracey and Watt found themselves frequent visitors of Billboard's dance tracks listings in the U.S.

1996's "Wrong" from the Walking Wounded album became a No. 1 dance hit followed by further chart-toppers like "The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)" with Deep Dish in 1998, "Five Fathoms (Love More)" in 1999, and "Temperamental" in 2000. "Lullaby of Clubland" ended their streak of No. 1 dance hits, peaking at No. 3 in 2000. Tracey Thorn Biography Tracey Thorn was born on September 26, 1962, in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, England, and grew up in nearby Hatfield. In 1980, she left her first band the Stern Bops, with whom she played guitar and sang, to form another group with two of her classmates. Collectively known as The Marine Girls, they played local school cafeterias and private parties, and released a cassette of original tunes entitled A Day By The Sea in March 1981. The mail-order only tape sold a dismal 50 copies, but that didn't discourage the girls from releasing a second cassette called Beach Party the following August.

In February 1982, Tracey and her bandmates were invited by reknowned radio DJ John Peel to record a Peel session at BBC studios in London. The following month they released their debut single "On My Mind," featuring Tracey as the lead vocalist on In Phaze Records. The song was picked as the NME's Single of the Week and was quickly reissued under the more prominent Cherry Red label. tracey thorn in ebtg Shortly after the release of "On My Mind," Tracey formed a musical partnership with guitarist/singer/songwriter Ben Watt and they christened Everything But the Girl. The duo, who met while they were both studying at Hull University, released a three-track EP which featured their rendition of the Cole Porter standard "Night and Day," as well as two original compositions. A Distant Shore, Tracey's debut solo mini-album was issued in August 1982. One of the tracks, "Plain Sailing," was released as a single and later appeared on the Cherry Red compilation entitled Pillows & Prayers, which also featured “Lazy Ways” from The Marine Girls, as well as a Ben Watt solo recording.

These early efforts revealed the twosome's folk, soul and jazz influences that would be further developed on subsequent recordings. The duo signed to the independent Blanco y Negro imprint and released their debut album Eden in June 1984. Issued as Everything But the Girl in the States, the LP cracked the top 15 on the British album charts and produced three minor hit singles including "Each and Everyone" and "Native Land." Their sophomore release, Love Not Money, became their first top 10 LP in the UK, and included "When All's Well" and "Angel." 1986's Baby the Stars Shine Bright, recorded with a full orchestra, faired poorly on the charts and spawned the minor hit "Come On Home." tracey thorn releases idlewind In 1988, Everything But the Girl released Idlewind, their fourth album for Blanco y Negro. They scored their first top 10 British hit with a cover of the Danny Whitten song "I Don't Want to Talk About It," which Rod Stewart had recorded in 1980. The duo's version climbed to No. 3 in the summer of '88.

1990's The Language of Love included the track "Driving," which became their first chart single stateside when it cracked Billboard's Modern Rock and Adult Contemporary charts. 1991 saw the release of their sixth LP, Worldwide, followed by the British EP Covers, which was issued as the album Acoustic in the U.S. along with additional tracks. The future of Everything But the Girl seemed uncertain when Watt fell ill in 1992, diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease known as Churg-Strauss Syndrome. He eventually recovered and the duo returned to the studio to record Amplified Heart, which was released in August 1994. That same year, Tracey contributed her distinctive vocals to two songs featured on Massive Attack's Protection album, namely the title track and "Better Things." She collaborated with Massive Attack again in 1995 on "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," which appeared on the Batman Forever soundtrack. tracey thorne records "missing" Although initially released as a track on their 1994 album, "Missing" found a whole new life after American DJ Todd Terry remodeled it into a danceable New York house remix in 1995.

The single, issued that summer logged 14 weeks in the British top 10, peaking at No. 3 that November. It became a huge smash the world over, including in the U.S. where it went all the way to No. 2 in February 1996. The success of "Missing" as a dance track prompted Tracey and Watt to return to the studio to record an electronica-oriented collection entitled Walking Wounded. Released in the spring of 1996, the LP spawned three top 20 UK hits in the title track "Wrong" and "Single." 1999's Temperamental continued in the club music vein, and provided the duo with four top five dance hits in the U.S. tracey thorn records "damage" Partners in music as well as in life, Tracey and Watt have three children together. Their twin daughters were born in 1998 and their little boy arrived in 2001. EBTG went on hiatus in 2002 and Watt focused on DJing while Tracey took time off to raise their children.

Like the Deserts Miss the Rain, a compilation of EBTG's club hits, was issued in 2003. In 2005, Tracey returned to the studio to record vocals for the track "Damage" by German dance duo Tiefschwarz, while a collection of EBTG remixes entitled Adapt or Die: Ten Years of Remixes came out in 2006. Nearly a quarter of a century after the release of her solo debut, Tracey emerged with Out of the Woods in March 2007, featuring the single "It's All True." What else do you need to know? Tracey Thorn — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm alternative Tracey Thorn (born September 26, 1962, in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl . She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours. She lives with her EBTG partner Ben Watt in North London.

The couple have twin daughters born in 1998, and a son born in 2001… read more Massive Attack – Protection Lyrics | Genius Lyrics This girl I know needs some shelter She don't believe anyone can help her She's doing so much harm, doing so much damage But you don't want to get involved You tell her she can manage And you can't change the way she feels But you could put your arms around her I know you want to live yourself But could you forgive yourself If you left her just the way You found her I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection You're a boy and I'm a girl But you know you can lean on me And I don't have no fear I'll take on any man here Who says that's not the way it should be I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection She's a girl and you're a boy Sometimes you look so small, look so small You've got a baby of your own When your baby's gone, she'll be the one To catch you when you

 fall I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection Sometimes you look so small, need some shelter Just runnin' round and round, helter skelter And I've leaned on me for years Now you can lean on me And that's more than love, that's the way it should be Now I can't change the way you feel But I can put my arms around you That's just part of the deal That's the way I feel I'll put my arms around you I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection I stand in front of you I'll take the force of the blow Protection You're a boy and I'm a girl You're a boy and I'm a girl, yeah You're a boy and I'm a girl You're a boy and I'm a girl, yeah More on Genius About “Protection” The title track from the band’s second album, “Protection” is a collaboration between Massive Attack and Tracey Thorn, the lead singer of British duo Everything But the Girl .

The hi-hat/bass pattern and guitar “wah” are sampled from the intro to James Brown’s “The Payback” (1973). EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - IDLEWILD - Catalog - Music On Vinyl EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL IDLEWILD 1LP Everything But The Girl was an English musical duo, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. Idlewild (1988), their most accessible recording, consists of eleven intimate songs. The album spawned the single "I Don't Want to Talk About It," a poignant cover of a song by the late Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten which became EBTG's biggest hit to date, landing at the number three spot on the British charts. Start here, then go on to the rest of this remarkable group's catalog. 180 gram audiophile vinyl Format : 1 LP, 180 gram Releasedate : 2016-02-29 1. Love Is Here Where I Live 2. These Early Days 3. I Always Was Your Girl 4. Oxford Street 5.

The Night I Heard Caruso Sing Side B 2. Shadow On A Harvest Moon 3. Blue Moon Rose 4. Tears All Over Town 5. Lonesome For A Place I Know 6. Apron Strings Everything But The Girl was an English musical duo, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. Originating at the turn of the 1980s as a leader of the lite-jazz movement, Everything But The Girl became an unlikely success story more than a decade later, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between Pop and Electronica. Idlewild (1988), their most accessible recording, consists of eleven intimate songs. The setting is perfect for such moving compositions as "Love Is Here Where I Live" and "Apron Strings." The album spawned the single "I Don't Want to Talk About It," a poignant cover of a song by the late Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten which became EBTG's biggest hit to date, landing at the number three spot on the British charts. Start here, then go on to the rest of this remarkable group's catalog.

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Question: Tracey Thorn was the lead singer in which English pop duo?
Answer: Everything but the Girl