1982年组建于英格兰东部海滨城市——赫尔市的夫妻二人档，将电子、爵士、流行成功结合的典范。老婆Tracey Thorn(主音)和老公Ben Watt(词曲创作，合成)本是赫尔大学的同学，乐队得名于一家家具店的广告：

　　“我们满足您的一切卧房需要，除了女孩儿”。乐队初期走英伦清新吉他路线，后来逐渐在音乐中融入爵士、电子元素，近期又在流行中糅合前卫实验风格。除了Ben顽强抵抗白血病，获得新生的事迹，乐队90年代初在专辑《The Language of Life》中能有幸邀得爵士传奇Stan Getz共谱心曲，也一直为人津津乐道。

Everything but the Girl(often shortenedEBTG) is a two-personEnglishband, currently inactive, and formed inHullduring 1981, consisting of leadsingerand occasionalguitaristTracey Thorn(born 26 September 1962) and guitarist,keyboardist, and singerBen Watt(born 6 December 1962).Watt and Thorn are also a couple; they are very private about their relationship and personal life. It was not a publicised fact for some time that they were a couple, or that they had married subsequently.The duo have professed a strong desire to raise their three children with as much privacy as possible.When Thorn and Watt met, they were both attending theUniversity of Hull, and both had contracted with theindependent record company,Cherry Red Records, assoloartists. Thorn was also a member of thetrio,Marine Girls, and Watt contributed a photograph to the cover of their first album,Lazy Ways. The pair each had solo album releases through Cherry Red: Thorn's 1982 LP wasA Distant Shore, an eight-track mini-album. Watt's LP was entitledNorth Marine Drive.They formed a duo and adopted their name 'Everything but the Girl' from the slogan of well-known Hull shop, Turners' "Furniture, onBeverley Road.The store had originally built a window sign that read, "for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl,"the last part of which was later added to the shop's main signage.