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Village People cop Victor Willis blasts Casablanca Records film for glaring omission: '"Spinning Gold" is spinning lies'
The Neil Bogart biopic depicts ‘70s superstars like KISS and Donna Summer, but one of Casablanca’s biggest success stories is bafflingly overlooked.
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'SNL' vows to 'Shave Ivanka's Head' if Village People songs continue to be played at Trump rallies
Host Adele also stunned social media by breaking into song during a 'Bachelor' sketch.
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LL Cool J, Village People, X-Ambassadors Talk New Music, Lizzo and More at Fox New Year’s Eve
LL Cool J usually spends his New Year's Eve watching the ball drop at home, but for 2020 he decided to go big and ring in the new decade performing live with DJ Z-Trip in Times Square as part of "Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey." The show broadcast from New York City Tuesday […]
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Village People Cowboy Randy Jones on the cult classic that inspired the first Razzie Awards
Thirty-eight years ago, entertainment publicist John Wilson held a potluck Oscar party at his Los Angeles home, and — inspired by a double feature of the infamous movie musicals Xanadu and Can’t Stop the Music — he decided to launch his own informal awards show, the Golden Raspberry Awards, or “Razzies,” to recognize the worst in film. Obviously the title Can’t Stop the Music was incredibly nonprophetic, since Village People’s poorly timed flick came out in 1980, when disco music was well on its
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Y-M-C-Slay! ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Serves Village People Realness
“It takes stones, it takes cojones, to sing with a straight gay face a song like ‘Macho Man,’” Randy Jones, aka the original Cowboy from LGBTQ disco sensations Village People, tells Yahoo Music with a laugh. Jones and his fellow uniformed macho men made a major impact in the 1970s, largely through network TV exposure — much like the Emmy-winning RuPaul Charles and the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race are infiltrating the mainstream today.