They wrote and performed the original version of the song "No More 'I Love You's'", covered by Annie Lennox in 1995 for her Medusa album, and which she took to number 2 in the UK Singles Chart.

Deriving their name from the Roland Barthes' book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, the duo began writing material and also recruited keyboard player Barry Gilbert after advertising for a keyboardist.

[1][2] John Warwicker, the art director for A&M at the time, recalled in 2022 that the signing of the Lover Speaks was met with "great excitement" by A&M, who "thought they had discovered the Walker Brothers of the 80s".

[9][10] In February 1987, the band released a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten" as a non-album single, but it failed to chart.

[10] In the spring and summer of 1987, the band returned to the studio to record their second album, The Big Lie, with Iovine, Stewart and Daniel Lanois sharing production.

[15][16] The band were wound down by the end of 1988, although Music & Media reported in December 1989 that A&M Records, who were looking to restructure themselves for the new decade, were uncertain whether they would retain the Lover Speaks on their roster.

[20] The song "Take My Imagination to Bed", also written by the duo, was released as a B-Side on the 12" version of the UK Top 10 single "Weak in the Presence of Beauty" several months earlier.