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Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the couple behind EBTG’s poignant, post-rave soundtracks, discuss the making of their first new album in 24 years, the surprise success of “Missing,” and more in this...
The young Tom Watt was someone who was restless to get on with his life. As a teenager in Glasgow he met a homesick Glaswegian pianist then playing with a band led by Trinidadian clarinetist Carl...
There’s little to tie these styles together. Yet all three have deeply informed the music of Everything But the Girl. Over the course of 10 albums released between 1984 and 1999, the husband-and-wife team of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn have made change the sole constant in their sound.
When the band split up in 1999, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt didn't. A couple since they met at the University of Hull in 1982, they only stepped away from the limelight in order to raise a family.
Her book begins with a cliffhanger. It's March 1997 and Everything but the Girl (EBTG), the nine-million album-selling duo comprised of Thorn and her husband Ben Watt, are luxuriating in a ch-chi Australian hotel room replete with a white baby grand piano.
Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have been married for 15 years. They were dating for 28 years after getting together in 1981 and were married in 2009. They have 3 children, Jean, Alfie and Blake.
Benjamin Brian Thomas Watt (born 6 December 1962) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, author, DJ, and radio presenter, best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl. [1] Early life.
