Just Good Friends had a strange beginning, in that it was originally put together as far back as the middle of 1988, when I was spreading my wings as a contributor to other artists' albums. I'd done some work with Peter Hamill, I'd done work with Tony Banks, but I got a request to come in and do a potential duet with Myra of Clannad and I went down to Rockford Studios in Wales to put down this track, which was supposed to be part of Clannad's new direction. Clannad were going through the same sort of turbulent phase that Marillion were going through at the time, and I came away with a great lyric, but the rest of the project just disappeared. And it wasn't until '91 that I picked it up for the Internal Exile album, which was my second solo album. We wanted to do a duet then, but the circumstances at the time dictated that we weren't going to find the female voice to come in, but in the early part of this year, Foss Paterson, my keyboard player, happened to mention Sam Brown, who was living up in the county, or the kingdom of Fife in Scotland, and she came down six months pregnant, heavily laden with child, and we put together a track which is probably the version that I was always intending to be of Just Good Friends