While David Gamson and Fred Maher moved on to better things, Green checked into a hospital out of exhaustion and went into semi-retirement back in Wales. It was pub and darts and fooling around with his musical toys at home until ex-Heaven 17 members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh pulled him out of hiding and into the studio to contribute a song for the British Electric Foundation's new LP Music Of Quality And Distinction Vol.2 -- a production devoted to cover songs.

Piqued, Green manage to record two other songs for Scritti, which is now him and his ragga-crazed self. Each of the two singles featured a guest ragga artists counterpointing to Green's phase 3 honey-sweet voice. Shabba Rank was the guest of honor in Beatle's She's A Woman released in March 1991 and reached #20 on the UK chart. Sweetie Irie -- a favourite of Green's -- followed suit and graced Summer 1991's Take Me In Your Arms (And Love Me), originally by Gladys Knight. This one fared less well at #47. In October, the Stevie Wonder song Green did for BEF, I Don't Know Why I Love you (But I Love You), was finally released as a single though not as a Scritti one and it seems, did not chart at all. None of these were released in the US, but other countries, Japan for example, supposedly got their own releases.

Alhough Green wrote none of the lyrics and basic melody, the two Scritti singles does feature Green doing almost all the performance, arrangement and programming -- now that there's no David and Fred to hide behind. The Scritti sound is now very synthesized and self-conscious of itself as a performance. And it's also very euphoric, sort of starts and ends quietly and exploding in between -- like angelic twins of phase 1's Hegemony.

It is uncertain whether this phase is completely over yet. When these songs were recorded, Green had already amassed an album's worth of material but for some reason released nothing. There's a rumor that he's holding back the new LP because of some dissatisfaction with how the songs worked out and that Virgin will instead release next year a 'best of' album, possibly including some new songs. Another possiblity, suggested by yet one more rumor, this time started by one of Green's Heaven 17 pals, is that perhaps he had to excuse himself from singing due to inflamation of the lip from unclean lip-piercing needle. Pure speculation of course, the inflamation part. But imagine that, lip-piercing on a going onto 41-year-old lip!

As for the latest in unconfirmed rumors aka "news", be sure to check the Chatterbox / speculation forum occassionaly.

In the meanwhile...

SCRITTI . SCHOLARS . WORLDWIDE . UNITE!
Show your undying support for Scritti and write to Virgin Records to demand that the 'best of' album be released NOW and that it should be a box set including all the variations from the singles, plus the early Rough Trade stuff, and while they're at it, throw in ALL of the videos, prints, and posters as well!

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song title	7"	12"	LP
She's A Woman
Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me
I Don't Know Why I Love You (But I Love You)