Thursday 13 May 2021

Everything but the girl

Everything but the girl is an English duo consisting of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. In the 1990s, they are best known for the song "Missing", which was #1 on the UK and Canada dance chart. It reached #3 on the UK singles chart with a lot of help from the remixes from Todd Terry. "Wrong" was also a Canada dance #1 and the first of 3 US Dance #1s in 1996. "The future of the future" and "Five Fathoms (Love more)" were also US Dance #1's.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1992   13	Covers EP
Oct 1994    3	Missing (remix)
Apr 1996    6	Walking Wounded
Jun 1996    8	Wrong
Oct 1996   20	Single
Dec 1996   36	Driving (remix)
Mar 1997   25	Before Today
Oct 1998   31	The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold) (featured with Deep Dish)
Sep 1999   27	Five Fathoms

What happened next?
In July 2017, Everything but the girl reclaimed the rights to eight of their albums, plus the American rights to Temperamental and Walking Wounded from Warner Music Group. This catalogue will now be distributed through Chrysalis Records under licence from Watt's Strange Feeling label Ben Watt released a couple of solo albums "Hendra" (2014) and "Fever Dream" (2016). He collaborated with Bernard Butler (Suede), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd). Tracy Thorn released "Record" (2018) with collaborations with Corinne Bailey Rae and Shura amongst others. Both Thorn and Watt have each written two books. Thorn's 2013 memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, covers a significant portion of the history of EBTG as a band.

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