Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn unrecognisable from her 90s pop heyday – and is now a best-selling author
EVERYTHING But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn looks unrecognisable from her 90s pop heyday.
The 59-year-old star was known for her funky hairstyles and rock n roll outfits.
But fast forward two decades later, Tracey has showcased her new look on social media.
Wearing a navy star patterned shirt, the songstress showed off her grey tresses and captioned it: “Lipstick on, interview about to begin, here we go again.”
She was best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl from 1982 to 1999.
Tracey met her bandmate and husband Ben Watt at the University of Hull where they were both students and signed as solo artists.
They released their first album Eden in 1984, while their biggest chart success came in 1995, when DJ Todd Terry remixed a song from their Amplified Heart album.
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The song Missing peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, topping the charts in several countries.
After 28 years as a couple, Tracey and Ben married in 2009 and they live in Hampstead, north London.
The couple share twin girls, Jean and Alfie, born in 1998, and a son, Blake, born in 2001.
Since her success in the pop group, Tracey has become an author and published her memoir titled Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star in 2013.
Two years later, she published her second book, Naked at the Albert Hall and released her third memoir in 2019 called Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia.
Last year, she returned with another book, My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend, detailing her friendship with Lindy Morrison of the Go-Betweens.
Tracey opened up about her crippling stage fright when she performed as Everything But The Girl last year.
“Yeah. The thing I could never do on stage was be the messiah-status front-person of a band – reaching out to touch someone’s hand,” she told the Mail Online.
“Aren’t you lucky to be near me?” God. I couldn’t take it seriously in myself. I couldn’t believe in myself doing that. So even on stage I was constantly trying to pretend that no one was really looking at me.”
Speaking about life in a male-dominated industry, Tracey admitted that she got used to working in “a man’s world”.
She added: “During some of those years I did feel alone some of the time. There were times when I was the only woman on the tour bus. I resented that.”
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