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The band released their official follow-up to Skylarking in 1989.

This album, Oranges and Lemons, produced by Paul Fox, was their biggest seller yet, with the videos for " The Mayor of Simpleton " and " King for a Day " getting heavy airplay on MTV and other international music TV programs.

Sonically lush and tightly produced, the album continued along the psychedelic influence of Skylarking while drawing from the energetic pop sound of their earlier work.

Like its predecessor, it was also well-received critically.

It was during this period that Partridge began a relationship with an American fan, Erica Wexler, the niece of famed American record producer Jerry Wexler.

Although signs of the failing of Partridge's first marriage were evident as far back as English Settlement ( notably on the album's closing track, " Snowman "), it was some time before the still-married Partridge felt comfortable with Wexler's advances and his mixed feelings about the situation were chronicled in the song " Another Satellite ".

The relationship finally came to fruition after Partridge's first wife Marianne left him.