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The Daily Beast reports: The Village People will perform during Donald Trump inauguration celebrations, the band’s frontman Victor Willis announced on Monday. “We know this won’t make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics,” Willis wrote in a Facebook post. The band’s hit songs “Y.M.C.A.” and “Macho Man” …

Village People lead vocalist Victor Willis writes: There’s been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem. As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village …

Out Magazine reports: The heterosexual frontman for the Village People wants you to know the iconic song “YMCA” is not about illicit gay sex, warning he’s going to sue anyone who suggests otherwise. “I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex,” Victor Willis warned via Facebook, later adding …

Former Village People frontman and songwriter Victor Willis (seen here during a 2006 drug arrest) is planning a tell-all book about his days with the legendary disco group. Willis, who left the group in 1980, begins his musical comeback attempt on August 31 in Las Vegas, with a worldwide tour to follow the launch of his autobiography in 2008. Willis, …