Green remained in New York with his new musical partners, and with the help of his new manager Bob Last he finally resolved his problems with Rough Trade and signed major label deals with Virgin Records in the UK and with Warner Bros. Another song from this period written by Gartside and Gamson, 'L Is for Lover', was recorded by US jazz singer Al Jarreau and released as the title track of his 1986 album. 'Small Talk' would eventually appear as a track on Cupid & Psyche 85. However, due to the legal battle involving Green's release from his contract with Rough Trade, the single was never released. They hoped to release it as a new Scritti Politti single. He'd been out the night before with Marc Almond and he looked a bit the worse for wear.' The trio continued work on 'Small Talk' which had been started by Gamson and Gartside in the UK and was later remixed by Nile Rodgers. It was in the studio in New York and he came up to me and said 'hello, I'm Green, I'm terrible'. Maher remembered, 'I'll never forget the first time I saw Green.

In 1983 the duo of Gartside and Gamson travelled to Gamson's home city of New York and met up with another New Yorker, drummer Fred Maher, to put together a new version of Scritti Politti. Green and Gamson hit it off and decided that they would work together in future as they had similar ideas about the type of music they wanted to make. Gamson was a keyboard player/programmer and an assistant engineer for the label who had used some studio downtime to record a demo version of the Archies' 1969 hit song ' Sugar, Sugar'. At the same time Green had been distancing himself from the Marxist collective that Scritti Politti had originated from, and by the time of the album's release Scritti Politti was effectively his solo vehicle, the other original members having left during the album's recording or shortly afterwards.Дuring the recording of Songs to Remember Rough Trade had introduced Green to New Yorker David Gamson. After Songs to Remember he began to talk to major record labels, a move reluctantly supported by Rough Trade who wanted to keep him but realised they could not support him financially with the budget for the type of record that Green wanted to make. Scritti Politti's debut album Songs to Remember had been released in September 1982, but even before the album's release frontman Green had expressed in interviews his frustration at the limitations of being signed to an independent label like Rough Trade Records.

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