Everything But The Girl
UK
Formed: 1981
Genres: Pop/Rock, Electronic
Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Dance, Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Sophisti-Pop, New Wave, Punk/New Wave, College Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
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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. Founded in 1982 by Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the duo took their name from a sign placed in the window of a local furniture shop, which claimed "for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl." At the time of their formation, both vocalist Thorn and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Watt w...
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