Everything But The Girl是英国独立乐人Ben Watt 和Tracey Thorn组成的夫妻档乐队。 　　EBTG's debut single, a cover version of Cole Porter's "Night and Day", was released in June 1982. After steady sales and exposure from a compilation album entitled Pillows & Prayers, the single was re-issued in August 1983. 　　Their debut album, Eden, was released in the UK in 1984. It reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, spending twenty-weeks on the chart.It featured the single, "Each and Every One" which reached number 28 on the UK Top 40.Thorn wrote in 2016 that her lyric was misunderstood: 　　"Our first single, “Each and Every One”, was intended as an angry lyric about being a female musician, patronised and overlooked by male music critics. My band the Marine Girls had attracted several reviews along the lines of “not bad for a girl” and so the opening lines addressed this: “If you ever feel the time/To drop me a loving line/Maybe you should just think twice/ I don’t wait around on your advice”. It was the instructions of music critics I wasn’t waiting around for, but I wrote it too subtly, and so it was heard as a lovelorn lament, a lonely girl waiting for a letter from a boy." 　　In spite of their early history as established independent artists, to newcomers Everything But The Girl was considered part of the jazz、popular music style known as "sophisti-pop", alongside other British acts like Carmel, Swing Out Sister, Sade, Matt Bianco and The Style Council. Both Watt and Thorn were guest musicians on the Style Council's Café Bleu album,while EBTG worked with producer Robin Millar and engineers Ben Rogan and Mike Pela—who also collaborated with Sade—on their early albums.Although Eden was released in the UK, a different recording, Everything but the Girl, was released in the United States on the Sire label. The US release contains six tracks from Eden, two UK singles and four alternate tracks. 　　The 1985 album Love Not Money was their second studio album release, and signalled a move away from jazz and Latin influences to a more traditional electric guitar, bass and drums arrangements. The US edition included two additional songs that were not on the original UK release: a cover version of The Pretenders' song "Kid" and "Heaven Help Me". 　　The next year they released Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, recorded with an orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.They revealed the album's inspiration by their choices of B-sides for its single releases: songs from Bacharach and Jimmy Webb on the 12" versions (as well as a cover version of Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces"). The first single from the album was "Come on Home," followed by "Don't Leave Me Behind." 　　In 1988 EBTG released Idlewild. Blending acoustic instrumentation with sequenced drums and synthesisers, it reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart, spending fifteen weeks on the chart.A cover version of Danny Whitten's "I Don't Want to Talk About It", previously a success for Rod Stewart, was released as a single shortly afterwards. It reached Number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and was added to the latter issues of the album.Around this time, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions asked Thorn to contribute vocals to the song "Big Snake" on their final studio album Mainstream. 　　Tommy Lipuma produced the band's 1990 album The Language of Life, which featured the single "Driving.""Driving" received heavy rotation on American adult alternative radio. The album featured a host of leading west coast session musicians including Omar Hakim, Joe Sample and Michael Brecker. Stan Getz contributed a tenor sax solo on the song "The Road". 　　In 1991 they released the self-produced album Worldwide. It charted at number 29 on the UK Albums Chart. 　　1992 saw the release of the Covers EP. It reached Number 13 on the UK Top 40. The lead track was "Love Is Strange". It also included cover versions of Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher Than the Rest"; Cyndi Lauper's "Time after Time" and Elvis Costello's "Alison".These four tracks were included on the US only album, Acoustic. 　　In the summer on 1992, the duo was forced to curtail recording and touring for several months when Watt developed Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. Hospitalised for ten weeks, and enduring several life-saving operations, he subsequently wrote a memoir, Patient, about his near-death ordeal. 　　In 1993, EBTG released two EPs in the UK. One featured a cover version of Paul Simon's "The Only Living Boy in New York". The other spawned a subsequent top ten UK Top 40 hit - I Didn't Know I Was Looking For Love-for Karen Ramirez. 　　1994 saw EBTG release their seventh album, Amplified Heart, a hybrid of folk rock and electronica featuring contributions from guitarist Richard Thompson, double bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Dave Mattacks, and producer/programmer John Coxon. Producer Todd Terry remixed the track "Missing", and when released as a single, it became an international success.It reached the top ten around the world, including the US, where it peaked at No. 2 in the Billboard Hot 100. 　　While recording "Amplified Heart" Thorn and Watt wrote lyrics and music for two tracks - "Protection" and "Better Things" on the second album "Protection" by Massive Attack. Thorn sang lead vocals on both. The single "Protection" reached number 14 on the UK Top 40.The album reached number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. 　　Buoyed by the recent successes and out of contract at WEA, EBTG released the self-produced "Walking Wounded" in 1996 exclusively licensed to Atlantic Records for the United States and Canada and Virgin Records for the Rest of the World. Featuring collaborations with Spring Heel Jack and Howie B it ushered in a new electronic sound for their own work. It charted at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned two top ten UK Top 40 singles - "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong". Two further singles - "Single" and "Before Today" - reached number 20 and number 25 respectively. 　　In 1999 the duo followed it up with their last - and ninth - studio album, "Temperamental". It charted at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart. 　　The duo performed their final show at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2000.