The album was certified four times platinum in United States due to five major singles on the Billboard charts, including two No.

After touring for fourteen months on his first album, Marx returned to the studio with a number of songs that had been written while on the road.

Repeat Offender was the result of the energy generated from over a year and a half on the road and was written or co-written entirely by Marx.

Another single from the album, "Children of the Night", was written in support of the suburban Los Angeles (Van Nuys)-based organization for runaways.

[2][3] Marx's second world tour began in the spring of 1989 and took him to Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Europe, Canada, and the United States, lasting through August 1990.