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...