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A LONG WALK WITH...TRACEY THORN (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd July 2025
First broadcast in 2018, Janice Long takes a walk with one of the finest voices in the country, Tracey Thorn.
They hear some songs off her solo album 'Record', and others, with references to the places they visit, her family history and early gigs as both a performer and music fan attendee.
For four decades Tracey Thorn has been one half of worldwide best sellers Everything But The Girl, an acclaimed writer and journalist, wise woman of social media, solo artist and vocalist, who everyone from Paul Weller to Massive Attack wants on their tracks.
Tracey is an enchanting and fascinating guide as they walk around the streets, churches and music venues of North London and Soho. These include Ronnie Scott's, The Hope and Anchor, The Lyceum on The Strand and St. Martin's Church in Gospel Oak where her parents and grand parents were married - described by the architectural expert and historian Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the craziest of London's Victorian Churches'.
Everything But The Girl - Driving
Tracey Thorn - Smoke
Tracey Thorn - Kentish Town [Buzzin' Fly]
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Suburban Relapse [Polydor]
Marine Girls - On My Mind [Cherry Red]
Massive Attack - Protection [Wild Bunch]
Steel Pulse - Sound Check (Live) [Warner Bros]
The Go‐Betweens - Head Full Of Steam [Beggars Banquet]
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded [Virgin]
Tracey Thorn - Dancefloor [Unmade Road]
Everything But The Girl – Love Is Here Where I Live [Blanco Y Negro]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: TRACEY THORN (320kbs-m4a/98mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 18th November 2018
Tracey Thorn, musician and writer, is best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl. Brought up in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, she bought her first guitar, a black Les Paul copy, when she was 16 and her first band was called the Stern Bobs. Shortly after, she formed her own all-female band, Marine Girls, before moving to Hull University to study English. On her first night there, she met her future husband, Ben Watt, and they went on to form Everything But the Girl. Between 1982 and 2000, they sold more than nine million records and toured Europe and America. Despite their success, Tracey did not always enjoy performing live.
At 35 she left the pop world to look after her twin girls, who were followed by her son Blake. She took about seven years out to be a full time parent, but since then she has come back to song-writing, recording music and writing: her first memoir Bedsit Disco Queen was a best seller, and she has a fortnightly column in the New Statesman.
This year Tracey was presented with the outstanding contribution to music prize, at the AIM independent music awards.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young
Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
Patti Smith - Gloria [Arista]
John Martyn - Solid Air [Universal/Island]
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog [Warner]
Evelyn “Champagne” King - Shame [Big Break]
The Mamas & The Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me [Universal/Island]
Daft Punk - One More Time [EMI]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 18 - 4. TRACEY THORN (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd July 2018
Tracey Thorn shares her musical milestones with Matt Everitt. From punk to pop, Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, David Cassidy, working with Massive Attack, her first group Marine Girls. Plus Everything But The Girl and meeting her life partner Ben Watt.
Everything But The Girl - Wrong [Virgin]
Everything But The Girl - I Didn't Know I Was Looking For Love [Blanco Y Negro]
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Let's Have Another Cup O' Coffee
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen [Disky]
David Cassidy - How Can I Be Sure [Old Gold]
Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind [EMI]
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) [Disky]
XTC - Statue Of Liberty [Virgin]
Marine Girls - Tonight?
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Everything But The Girl - Missing [Blanco Y Negro]
Massive Attack - Protection (Feat. Tracey Thorn) [Wild Bunch]
John Grant & Tracey Thorn - Disappointing [Bella Union]
Tracey Thorn - It's All True [Virgin]
King Princess - 1950