1) I Want Your Sex

In this U.S. #2 hit from 1987, George Michael begs his female lover to have sex with him. This was 11 years before George was caught soliciting anonymous gay sex in a public lavatory in Los Angeles.

His actual girlfriend of the time appeared in the videoclip. “Don’t you think it’s time you had sex with me?”, he asks of her. “I tell you that I love you but you still say no.”

I suspect it was actually the other way around.

2) Monkey

In this U.S. #1 hit from 1988, George rails against his lover’s addiction (unspecified, but presumably drugs).

This was 18 years before George was found passed out at the wheel of his car in the middle of the road due to habitual drug use. And 18 and half years before the second time George was found passed out at the wheel of his car in the middle of the road due to habitual drug use.

3) Spinning the Wheel

In this U.K. #2 hit from 1996, George laments the unfaithfulness of a lover who seeks out dangerous sex with strangers. “Ain’t you getting what you want from me?”, he asks.

Ten years later, George was (again) busted for seeking anonymous public sex. George told the media that it was okay because he and his boyfriend, Kenny Goss, had an open relationship. Apparently that was news to Kenny.