Book description
I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band.
A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and
played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing
records.
Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the
group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and
sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles
and flop singles, were reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of our
lives. I've been in the charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself
described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco
diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to
the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be
experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle
changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.
Tracey Thorn was singer and songwriter with Everything But the Girl from
1982-2000. At that point she semi-retired from the music business to
bring up her children. She has since recorded three solo albums, Out of
the Woods, Love and Its Opposite, and a Christmas album, Tinsel and
Lights. She lives in London with her husband Ben Watt and their three
children
