At the time, Sanchioni had just come from finishing promotional activities for his track "Te Quiero", which he released under the pseudonym Pedro Ramón.

Speaking to Italian blog Decadance in 2021,[6] Roger's son and current DiKi Records owner Jean-François Samyn recalls Sanchioni working on an instrumental demo that sounded "quite promising".

One day, however, after listening to the D-Shake song "Yaaah", Sanchioni said to Jean-François that what the demo truly needed was "a 'C'mon'-type sample, perhaps sung by a woman".

For many years, the identity of the vocalist behind the spoken female vocals featured in the song was unknown; some sites had previously attributed it to Dutch model and singer Karen Mulder.

[6] One night after performing as a dancer for Sanchioni's shows as Pedro Ramón at a club in Paris, he had asked Honoré about doing some female vocals on one of his musical projects, wanting something in the vein of the French spoken-word segments in Visage's song "Fade to Grey".

[6] Speaking to Vice Italy in 2016, Cherchia said that Sanchioni's original production was, in his own words: "Really obscene, unbearable, hideous... [...] A real musical accident."

Cherchia wrote some nonsensical English lyrics to go with the song, and after he finished recording his vocals, he said to Sanchioni: "Do whatever you want with it, just don't put my name on it, have mercy!".

In 1992, the British label React released Jam & Spoon's "Watch Out for Stella" remix,[9] which gained more popularity than the original track.

[8] British hardhouse and trance music record producer Jon the Dentist picked "The Age of Love" (the Jam & Spoon mixes) as one of his favourites, adding "This is a guaranteed floor-filler.