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The group quickly became popular and moved into the mainstream, scoring several disco and dance hits internationally, including the hit singles "Macho Man", "In the Navy", "Go West" and their biggest hit, "Y.M.C.A.".

History

1977–1979

Songwriters Phil Hurtt and Peter Whitehead wrote the lyrics for the first album (Willis would subsequently take over writing duties in 1978 for the group's biggest hits). The Village People studio band was called Gypsy Lane, conducted by Horace Ott, who also provided much of the musical arrangements for Morali, who did not play any instruments.^[5]

The album became an international hit, and demand for live appearances soon followed. Morali hastily built a group of dancers around Willis to perform in clubs and videos. Morali met the first recruit, Felipe Rose (who dressed as a Native American), in the New York discotheque, The Anvil. Willis hand-picked Alex Briley (who initially portrayed an athlete but eventually became the group's soldier/sailor). The others were Mark Mussler (construction worker), Dave Forrest (cowboy), Lee Mouton (leatherman/biker), and Peter Whitehead (one of the group's early songwriters), who appeared on American Bandstand and in the video for the group's first hit, "San Francisco (You Got Me)".

With record sales soaring, Morali and Willis saw the need to create a permanent "group."^[6] They took out an ad in a theatre trade paper which read: "Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache."^[4] Glenn Hughes (leatherman), David Hodo (construction worker) and Randy Jones (cowboy) were among the hundreds who answered the ad.^[4]

With the "official" lineup in place, the group did a hasty photo-shoot for the cover of the already-recorded Macho Man album. The 1978 hit single "Macho Man" catapulted the group into the mainstream, and their follow-up single "Y.M.C.A." became one of the most popular hits of the 1970s.

In 1979, the United States Navy considered using their single "In the Navy" in a television and radio recruiting campaign. Belolo offered them permission if the Navy would help film a music video for it. The Navy provided them access to the San Diego Navy base, where the {{USS|Reasoner|FF-1063}}, several aircraft, and the crew of the ship would be used.^[7] This song was also performed on the TV series The Love Boat, and in the 1995 Navy comedy movie Down Periscope.

The group's fame peaked in 1979, when they made several appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and traveled with Bob Hope to entertain U.S. troops. They were also featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, Vol. 289, April 19, 1979. Willis left the group at the end of their North American tour in 1979 and was replaced by Ray Simpson, the brother of Valerie Simpson (of Ashford & Simpson).^[8] The end of 1979 would see the release of Live & Sleazy featuring Victor Willis on lead vocals on heavily edited “Live” portion of the album. Victor Willis has announced plans for the “Live” portion of Live & Sleazy to be remastered and re-released as Village People Live at the Greek Theatre later in 2018, no word has been made mentioned if it will include songs performed on their 1979 tour but left off the original release.

1980–1985

In June 1980 the feature film Can't Stop the Music starring Village People was released. The film was directed by Nancy Walker, written by Allan Carr and Bronte Woodard, music and lyrics by Jacques Morali (except Willis penned the lyrics to "Milkshake" and "Magic Night") and starring Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, Jean-Claude Billmaer, and Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner. By the time it was released, however, disco's popularity had waned, and at the March 1981 Golden Raspberry Awards, the movie was named Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay, and was nominated in almost all the other categories. Although the title song became a club play chart success and moderate radio hit, it was nominated for Worst Original Song "Razzie" and did not live up to sales expectations, never obtaining gold status as a single or album.^[9] The soundtrack also featured the talents of David London, who under his real name Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen became the future lead singer of Toto and one of the main contributors to Village People's next album.

The group was among the weekly guest stars on the November 22, 1980, episode of Love Boat (season four, episode seven). At the end of 1980, Jeff Olson joined the group as the cowboy.

In 1981, with new wave music becoming more popular than disco, Village People took off their on-stage costumes, where they put on a new look inspired by the New Romantic movement, and released the album Renaissance. It only attracted minor – mostly negative – attention, but did produce the group's first hit single in Italy with "5 O'clock in the Morning."

Victor Willis rejoined the group briefly in late 1981 for writing and recording the album Fox on the Box, which was released in 1982 in Europe and Japan, and in 1983 in the United States under the title In the Street. David Hodo and Ray Simpson both left the group in 1982 with Mark Lee and Miles Jaye replacing them respectively. Jaye contributed lead vocals to a single in 1983 called "America", which would be added as extra track to the 1999 remaster ofIn the Street. The group would make various television appearances in international markets.

Their last album containing new material, the 1985 dance/Hi-NRG release Sex Over the Phone, was not a huge commercial success, but it fared better in sales and club play than Renaissance.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} The title track, when released as a single, was banned by the BBC because of its subject matter: credit-card phone sex.^[10] Though banned, it did peak at 59 on the UK singles chart. The album featured yet another new lead singer, Ray Stephens (of The Great Space Coaster fame). Py Douglas came in to sub for Stephens for some of the group's live appearances in 1985 and can be seen in both promotional videos made for the group.

In 1985 the group took a hiatus, but reunited in 1987 with the lineup of Randy Jones, David Hodo, Felipe Rose, Glenn Hughes, Alex Briley, and Ray Simpson. In 1988, the group formedSixuvus Ltd. a managing group that managed the affairs of the group and had the license of Village People and it's characters in use until 2017. ^[11]

1990s–present

The 1990's brought a resurgence for the Village People. On September 22, 1991 they performed in front of 41,815 in Sydney, Australia, as part of the pre-game entertainment for the New South Wales Rugby League Grand Final held at the Sydney Football Stadium. They also performed a medley of self-parody songs at the MTV Movie Awards – "In the Movies" ("In the Navy"), "Psycho Bitch" ("Macho Man"), and "My MTV" ("Y.M.C.A."). The group also made a guest appearance on the hit show Married... with Children in the episode "Take My Wife, Please".

Founder Jacques Morali died of complications of AIDS in Paris, France on November 15, 1991. The Village People recorded with the German national football team on its official World Cup '94 song Far Away in America. In 1995, Eric Anzalone replaced Glenn Hughes as the Leatherman/Biker, and made his music video debut with Kelsey Grammer, Rob Schneider, and other cast members during the end-credits of the film Down Periscope, performing "In The Navy" with Ray Simpson on lead vocals.

In the early 2000s Village People released two singles, "Gunbalanya" and "Loveship 2001" under the name "Amazing Veepers". Leatherman/Biker Glenn Hughes died of lung cancer in New York City on March 4, 2001.^[12] Village People performed as the opening act for Cher on her Farewell Tour until it ended in April 2005. Former cowboy Randy Jones married Will Grega, his boyfriend of 20 years.^[13]

Later in the 2000s Village People continued to make appearances worldwide worldwide. Original Cop Victor Willis was arrested over drug and weapon related charges.^[14] On September 12, 2008, Village People received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, though Willis was not in attendance at the ceremony. Willis gave his first live concert in 28 years in Las Vegas on August 3, 2007, and married Karen, a lawyer and executive later that year. In May 2012 Willis won a landmark ruling in the first case heard regarding the Copyright Act of 1976, which allows recording artists and writers to reclaim their master recordings and publishing rights initially granted to record companies and publishers after 35 years. Willis recaptured copyrights including "Y.M.C.A.", "Go West", "Magic Night", "Milkshake", and "In the Navy".^[15] Willis also began to recapture his 33% share of songs he co-wrote.^[16]

In August 2013 Village People released a new song "Let's Go Back to the Dance Floor", written by Harry W. Casey of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Jim Newman joined the group as the Cowboy,^[17] and in October 2013 Bill Whitefield joined as the Construction Worker, a role he had filled in for the group over the years for David Hodo who retired.^[18] Continuing his legal quest, Victor Willis reclaimed ownership of "Y.M.C.A." and other songs written with Jacques Morali, with the removal of Henri Belolo, previously credited as a third writer.^[19] He released Solo Man, an album he recorded in 1979 featuring the Village People band. Willis appeared as himself on the game show "To Tell The Truth" and performed "Y.M.C.A." the following year.

The Village People continued to make television appearances, such as performing "Y.M.C.A." during halftime of the Chicago Bulls game as part of "70's Night." They also made several commercials including LetGo commercial debuts during the Rio Olympics,^[20] and a series of commercials in the UK for YOPA online estate agents.^[21]

In 2017, after years of legal battles over royalties and songwriting credits, Victor Willis and Can't Stop Productions settled their differences and Willis obtained the license to use the name and characters of Village People, owned by Can't Stop Productions. Willis returned as lead singer of Village People with a new group of background singers,^[22]^[23] but this caused contention with the group which had been performing for over 30 years as Village People. The trademark “Village People” was the subject of litigation, and as of December 14, 2017 there were two groups performing as Village People.^[24]^[25] In 2018, The U.S. District Court denied the Sixuvus' preliminary injunction, and ruled that there is only one group entitled to use the Village People trademark, the group featuring original lead singer Victor Willis.^[26]^[27] The Ray Simpson-led incarnation renames itself "The Kings of Disco".^[28] Felipe Rose (Native American) officially launches Solo Career in 2018 and releases new single "Going Back To My Roots" (cover of the 1977 Odyssey dance hit) song receives Best Dance Record at the 2018 Native American Music Awards. Quick changes to new group lineup as Leatherman Josh Cartier is replaced by J.J. Lippold before the rebranded group's first appearance at the Streamys award and Sonny Earl is replaced a few months later by Atlanta native James Lee who filled in for Sonny on more shows than Sonny performed.

In 2018 Willis took to social media to address claims and accusations made by former members on social media, while also announcing various projects, including the release of a show from 1979 as “Village People Live At The Greek Theatre”.^[29] Village People released their first Christmas album in November 2018, A Village People Christmas.^[30]

Appraisal

In AllMusic's entry on the group, Ron Wynn summarized them as "part clever concept, part exaggerated camp act" who were "worldwide sensations during disco's heyday and keep reviving like the phoenix."^[31] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau originally found the group to be a humorous annoyance,^[32] but warmed to their music after listening to the 1978 album Cruisin'; he wrote in Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "I give up—I've never been capable of resisting music this silly. At least this time they're not singing the praises of 'macho,' a term whose backlash resurgence is no laughing matter, and the gay stereotyping—right down to 'The Women,' every one a camp heroine of screen or disc—is so cartoonish that I can't imagine anyone taking it seriously. As for all the straights who think 'Y.M.C.A.' is about playing basketball, well, that's pretty funny too."^[33]

In popular culture

Due to their easily recognizable characters, the group have frequently been imitated or parodied in movies, television series, video games and music. Numerous covers and homages of their songs have been recorded. The stereotypical masculine characters, particularly the leather-clad biker character with a horseshoe mustache, have also become a widespread pop culture icons associated with male gay culture and "Y.M.C.A." has become something of an anthem of the LGBT community. Examples of homages and parody include an episode of the 1990s CGI show ReBoot, a scene in the 1993 movie Wayne's World 2, a 1993 episode of Married... with Children, the 1997 video for U2's single "Discotheque",^[34] a 2000 episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun, and the 2013 movie Despicable Me 2.

In 2006, Village People themselves were featured in an episode of the television series That '70s Show titled "We Will Rock You".^[35]

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations and other albums

Singles

Songs which reached the Billboard Club Play Singles chart

Lineup

Original seven members

1977 to 1979

1979 to 1980 {{anchor|Jeff Olson}}

1981 to 1982

1982 to 1984

1984 to 1985

1987 to 1990

1990 to 1995

1995 to 2013

2013 to 2017

2017 to 2018

2018 to present

Temporary members

Timeline

See also

Notes

References

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5. ^Straight, No Chaser by Victor Willis, 1990
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