Pop music icon George Michael, who helped put many a supermodel on the map when he incorporated Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford in his iconic music videos, wanted to create a hardcore porn version of his music video for Outside back in 1998 when he got busted for some tearoom action by a undercover cop.
via: The Advocate
The director of the video for Michael’s “Outside” revealed this music history nugget in the upcoming documentary, George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, on British television station Channel 4, The Independent reports.
Vaughan Arnell directed several of Michael’s music videos.
“Outside” was the first new song the Wham! frontman released after his infamous California arrest.
He was charged for essentially going out cruising in Beverly Hills.
A police sweep in Will Rogers Park, across from the Beverly Hills Hotel, led to the arrest of the then 34-year-old. Several officers, including the Beverly Hills police department’s crime suppression unit, monitored the park.
An undercover officer observed Michael performing a lewd act in the restroom alone. Michael was arrested as a result of the officer observing his behavior.
As a result of Michael pleading “no contest” to the charges, he was fined $810 and was required to serve 80 hours of community service.
Media coverage of what was then a scandal led to the singer’s outing.
Michael responded by writing “Outside,” a song whose lyrics directly referenced and mocked the arrest.
Michael danced with a nightstick in a police uniform in the video, which was a spoof of a Scandinavian porn film.
“He wanted to develop it more to make a secondary video, which would be a more hardcore porn version of it,” Arnell explains in the documentary.
According to Arnell, most of the video was shot from the air since the video was of people committing lewd acts in public, so it had to be filmed “somewhere where people couldn’t see you doing it.”
“Some of it was full penetration that we were doing as well, so that was full on for a controlled town,” Arnell revealed.
“The idea was to actually expand the video and make a porn movie of it as well, but it never finally got made. I think it got canned,” he said.
On Christmas Day 2016, Michael died at his Oxfordshire home at 53.
The film features over 40 interviews with celebrities, including Stevie Wonder and Stephen Fry. It airs Sunday on Channel 4.
I kind of wish George Michael would have gotten to live long enough to see the launch of Onlyfans. That way, he's have the freedom to create a hardcore porn version of one of his videos. It would be awesome if his estate released the hardcore version, but I don't think his label or the estate will ever let that happen.
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