So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Greatest Hits was released in Asia in November 1998 and included two new songs "Slipping Away" and "Thanks To You" a touching tribute to his mother. 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. It is his first acoustic album which featured several songs from several of his previous albums.

He had a stream of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s including "Endless Summer Nights" "Right Here Waiting" "Now and Forever" and "Hazard". His record sales worldwide exceed 30 million.