Welcome to Litsy!

She's great, not just at singing/making music but also as a writer, a chronicler and making sense of stuff.
I was a late comer to EBTG in the 90s so this was good to understand her, and their, beginnings and journey.

#missing #ayupaugust
Hubby has this book (and her two others) but I don‘t have the patience to look this morning so pic from internet!
Good song 😁

Tracey Thorn singer in the pop duo Everything but the girl tells a great story about the ups and downs of the music industry between the late 1970's when as a teenager she was part indie post punk girl group the marine girls, through life at hull university where she met partner Ben watts and they move through life as pop stars. Told with wit and a eye for the political in stories she is as engaging on the page as she is when you hear her speaking

This might be one of my favorite entertainment autobiographies ever. I'll admit I'm a very casual EBTG fan, but I hard good things about it. She discusses her successes and failures in a way that feels like visiting with a friend. She also interjects a lot of humor into her narrative. She really gets into what it means to stay true to yourself while trying to create. I found myself sad as I finished it because our time together was over.

Disliked this one. Maybe because I've been reading these rock memoirs and trying to listen to their music at the same time. Everything but the Girl's music is not to my taste. I might try to track down some Marine Girls, maybe that would have made me less critical of the book. I felt like the author shared more insight into Massive Attack's band dynamics than she did into her own.