Here, writer and former MTV VJ John Norris looks back on George Michael’s audacious “Outside” single and video, the stir it caused at the time, and how it holds up two decades later.

George Michael’s music video director has revealed that the late pop star wanted to make a “hardcore porn” version of his 1998 “Outside” video. Vaughan Arnell, who directed a number of ...

It’s kicking off with a strong start: the first track on the album is George Michael’s “Outside,” a song that put the British pop star’s controversial sex life front and center.

Following the arrest, Michael released “Outside,” a defiant, joyful ode to cruising and alfresco sex, as the lead single for his greatest hits album Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael.