The Village People were before my time by the time I really got into music the summer of 96 just b4 freshman year. But it was 60-70's. Queen, Zeppelin, Floyd & so on. Found a village people record at a thrift sore and one of those fisher price record players that played real records. Lol. The part on Wayne's World two was funny af lol and i don't think there's anyone that can deny feeling an overwhelming urge to act it out during the chorus. Also they cant deny that they have a fave village person. Everyone who has any knowledge of who the village people are has a fav one lol. Mines was always the cop.
Mr. Willis is just gaslighting. While he may be straight (he was married to Phylicia Rashad at the start of the VP), you can't tell me he didn't include double entendres and references to the gay community either voluntarily or at Morali's request. Story goes he was actually fired by Morali and Belolo after the Go West album allegedly for his increasing drug usage, so when he got the rights back in 2017, he took out revenge on the original members and assorted collaborators. While the originals also did the "nostalgia circuits," his current version is a bigger joke than the original concept ever was. And by all accounts, under all the success, it was a joke, albeit definitely not a mean-spirited one. If you didn't get the joke, you still enjoyed the performances. If you did get it, even better...
.....i remember in an interview that RANDY...the COWBOY said that that is the reason he left the group ...he didn't like the NEW WAVE DIRECTION that the group was going in he didn't feel it was MASCULINE....now that being said he was once a backup dancer for GRACE JONES so i was a bit let down by his statement...
The legacy of the Village People was taken by nobody less than the Spice Girls who have embraced the caricature aspect of performing and publishing aggressive catching songs
18:43:is that the same Henri belolo who produced break machine in 1984,remember them,street dance/break dance party,don't know for sure but the name Henri belolo was written as a producer of a lot of their records on the back of their record covers,i was just wondering if it was the same man,Henri was a disco producer wasn't he,wouldn't of been a great leap for him to be behind the music of break machine then
felipe rose and david hodo are the founding members of the village people the other for were added later felipe rose is a native american indian and part french
Iconic idol image for every boys..theyr gay but men macho strong and goodlooks ..all of which i myself as young as iam..they became my idols...not knowing abt being gay..
@@flyguy5941 Not judging just baring facts. You’ll know them by the fruits they bare. Their fruits aren’t to good unless you like rotten ones. I sure don’t 🤨😉
try just for a minute to imagine being in a disco in San Francisco when the Village People song "San Francisco" was played. The building would vibrate.
Wow, everyone should realize that the village people are just as popular now as back then because YMCA is played at every New York Yankee home game. Disco will never die because now it’s basically called techno basically the same thing. Dua Lipa and Lizzo, Kylie, Minogue David Guetta, Calvin Harris they would be considered disco back in the day. And by the way, everyone should realize that the lead singer of the village people, Victor Welles he definitely was not gay. He was married to a gorgeous actress or model. I believe he just had a drug problem.. of course, he was the voice behind the music.
Ik this comment was a few months ago but being in a heterosexual relationship doesn't mean anything. I was married to my kids father for years before he came out as homosexual! I'm not saying Victor was but.... However, he was married to Phylicia Rashad a few years (the mom from the Cosby show)
@@Dr.ZoidbergPhDcan't please some people. She's clearly not a English by first language person and she's enunciating quite well and her accent seems minimal. I think she's doing great actually. Any complaints I would have I swallow understanding I would likely have to work so hard to narrate this in her native tongue. Advice and constructive criticism is one thing but that was even worded like it harbored harsh intent.
I was a teen during their reign over disco I had a super mad crush on Phillipé Rose. I went to one of their concerts and after the show some girl and I went out back and saw the limos pulling up and she jumped on David Hodo and kissed him 🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️ and then we went around to the next limos other side and I opened the back door and she pushed me down into the floorboard of the seat and as I looked up Phillipé was sitting down and he reached down and tapped his lips to mine and some damn rent-a-cop grabbed a handful of my hair and jerked me out of the car. If that jerk had left me alone I would have just floated out!!🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️.
I have to make another comment after Victor Wallace RaySimpson Valerie Simpson’s brother became the lead singer. My friend I worked with was the chef for Ashford and Simpson so I know this is a fact.
Morali had a few post disco hits in europe. US is not the center of the world. Morali was a genius composer considering that willis only made very ininteresting simple lyrics because morali was not fluent in english.
One of my favorite groups of all time. I still remember in Middle School, while wearing a Village People T-shirt, someone comes up and says, "You know they're gay right?" I thought about it, shrugged, and continued being a fan. I still don't get the whole BS, I mean, like the dude in Rock Star says, "I don't give a crap who yer shaggin' mate, just do your job." And man, the Village People were great.
A friend of the indian guy told me Morali saw him dancing with a cowboy and decided to convince them to bring more macho types and make a band. So the indian guy started it all.
THE COMPUTER VOICE CAN'T EVEN SAY THE NAMES RIGHT. I STOPPED WATCHING THESE AND BLOCKED ALL OF THEM AS SHOULD EVERYONE WHO ARE JUST DISGUSTED THAT WE WERE LISTENING TO CRAP.
Glad victor finally got paid but he should have left remaining members after he put his new version of the band after he got paid and performed again, new version of the village people is a shell of it's self
SHELL IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. IT'S A SHIT SHOW AND AN EMBARRASSMENT. THE WHAT EVER "THEY" CALL THEMSELVES, THINK YOU JUST PUT ON A COSTUME AND AUTOMATICALLY THE CLOTHES GIVE YOU SUPER PERFORMANCE POWER. THOSE FAKES CAN'T DANCE AND CAN'T SING AND CAN'T DO THE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY HENCE WHY THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE CHOREO AND DUMB IT DOWN TO THE CRAP IT IS NOW.
Seriously, the only reason they were as popular as they were at the time is because we the youth were innocent. We just wanted great music and we had no clue what gay was. We would NEVER have supported this mess otherwise.
@@rickberglund2134 YOU'RE WELCOME. I WORKED WITH VP, WITH THE 2 GROUPS AND I AM VERY INFORMED WITH THE HISTORY, BOTH AS A FORMER MEMBER AND STRAIGHT FROM HODO'S MOUTH AND VICTOR HIMSELF. IT'S A SHIT SHOW NOW SADLY WITH VW'S NEW VERSION. SO SAD TO WATCH. PAINFUL TO WATCH!
Victor Willis voice was soooooo soulful❤❤
We love all original members of the village people
Starting with Victor Willis! He was the only reason I listened to them (Him)!
You guys forgot "Key West." It's the key to happiness.
The Village People were before my time by the time I really got into music the summer of 96 just b4 freshman year. But it was 60-70's. Queen, Zeppelin, Floyd & so on. Found a village people record at a thrift sore and one of those fisher price record players that played real records. Lol. The part on Wayne's World two was funny af lol and i don't think there's anyone that can deny feeling an overwhelming urge to act it out during the chorus. Also they cant deny that they have a fave village person. Everyone who has any knowledge of who the village people are has a fav one lol. Mines was always the cop.
Victor Willis wrote all the songs and lyrics to the Village People.he’s a genius, very talented person. But he had a drug problem.🤦🏽♀️
Who didn’t have a drug problem in the 70’s or 80’s
No, he didn’t . Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo did. Straight boys are always trying to rip us off.
Here in Brazil at the end of the 70s, VP played a lot on FM radio. It looks like they will be performing here these days with the new line up.

Mr. Willis is just gaslighting. While he may be straight (he was married to Phylicia Rashad at the start of the VP), you can't tell me he didn't include double entendres and references to the gay community either voluntarily or at Morali's request. Story goes he was actually fired by Morali and Belolo after the Go West album allegedly for his increasing drug usage, so when he got the rights back in 2017, he took out revenge on the original members and assorted collaborators. While the originals also did the "nostalgia circuits," his current version is a bigger joke than the original concept ever was. And by all accounts, under all the success, it was a joke, albeit definitely not a mean-spirited one. If you didn't get the joke, you still enjoyed the performances. If you did get it, even better...
sucks this the only youtube accessable doc bout them
GREAT VIDEO!!! IN THE 70S WAS THE BEST !!! THEY BROUGHT ME OUT.. THE DRESS CHANGES IN THE 80S WAS SO BAD!!!!! I TURNED IT OFF.. THANKS ,,..
.....i remember in an interview that RANDY...the COWBOY said that that is the reason he left the group ...he didn't like the NEW WAVE DIRECTION that the group was going in he didn't feel it was MASCULINE....now that being said he was once a backup dancer for GRACE JONES so i was a bit let down by his statement...
I will Always Loved them❤❤❤❤❤❤
Famous but actually very sad.....
The legacy of the Village People was taken by nobody less than the Spice Girls who have embraced the caricature aspect of performing and publishing aggressive catching songs
Comparing the Village People to the Spice Girls, is like comparing a brand new S-class V12 Mercedes to a beat up old 1990 Ford Escort.
Spice girls have nothing whatsoever to do with the Village People, not to mention they are completely talentless
At 11:36 ...It's a corny movie...but I love it...I have the soundtrack...
18:43:is that the same Henri belolo who produced break machine in 1984,remember them,street dance/break dance party,don't know for sure but the name Henri belolo was written as a producer of a lot of their records on the back of their record covers,i was just wondering if it was the same man,Henri was a disco producer wasn't he,wouldn't of been a great leap for him to be behind the music of break machine then
felipe rose and david hodo are the founding members of the village people the other for were added later felipe rose is a native american indian and part french
Just heard an interview by him on YT.. he says he is part Puerto Rican and Italian on his mother's side
What a shame mister morali died early too
They are staring in the new Disney remake of Snow White, The Village People and One Dwarf.
Please boycott anything Disney.
How about my room mate the verse we tose off ??
Iconic idol image for every boys..theyr gay but men macho strong and goodlooks ..all of which i myself as young as iam..they became my idols...not knowing abt being gay..
Bait and switch what happen to them ?😂
The lead singer ended up in a homeless shelter in New York.
Stop lying.
At the YMCA!
Unfortunately glenn the 🏍 died too too young
Lopez Jose Perez Mary Walker Helen
They should of had payout of profits, copyright agreements, taking care of business
Maam! I've also heard he turned out gay.
;)
Jacques morali is a brain
Movie shouldn't be great
Words like 'singers' aren't pronounced sinGRRs. The g is soft in ing words. Learn to speak correctly if you're going to narrate.
The person has an accent. She's fine, you are a bigot.
Oh, I don't know ... have you ever heard any of the Beatles speaking? Sing-Gers is how they said it.
So sad to live a life of vulgarity !
Judge not lest you be judged😈😈
@@flyguy5941 Not judging just baring facts. You’ll know them by the fruits they bare. Their fruits aren’t to good unless you like rotten ones. I sure don’t 🤨😉
Say man.... take it easy everything in this world it's a piece of crap including you😅
@@rvandagriff3520Ironic how the subject of "fruits" came up. 😅
Then why did u watch it in the first place. Oh I know why, so u! Could troll tf out it just yo get a form of attention
try just for a minute to imagine being in a disco in San Francisco when the Village People song "San Francisco" was played. The building would vibrate.
Wow, everyone should realize that the village people are just as popular now as back then because YMCA is played at every New York Yankee home game. Disco will never die because now it’s basically called techno basically the same thing. Dua Lipa and Lizzo, Kylie, Minogue David Guetta, Calvin Harris they would be considered disco back in the day. And by the way, everyone should realize that the lead singer of the village people, Victor Welles he definitely was not gay. He was married to a gorgeous actress or model. I believe he just had a drug problem.. of course, he was the voice behind the music.
Ik this comment was a few months ago but being in a heterosexual relationship doesn't mean anything. I was married to my kids father for years before he came out as homosexual! I'm not saying Victor was but.... However, he was married to Phylicia Rashad a few years (the mom from the Cosby show)
@@NiecyMidget Welles he definitely was not gay
Get rid of the computer voice with far too many mispronunciations..
I think the commentator just has an accent bro
@@Dr.ZoidbergPhDcan't please some people. She's clearly not a English by first language person and she's enunciating quite well and her accent seems minimal. I think she's doing great actually. Any complaints I would have I swallow understanding I would likely have to work so hard to narrate this in her native tongue. Advice and constructive criticism is one thing but that was even worded like it harbored harsh intent.
yuck...right?
She is from Unyayted kingdumm
@@jinroh516not from the UK. She said Green-witch instead of Grenitch.
It doesn't matter gay or straight person, every person loved the group and music, even today.❤
And they teach you to be Macho. We don’t have too many positive role models today
I was a teen during their reign over disco I had a super mad crush on Phillipé Rose. I went to one of their concerts and after the show some girl and I went out back and saw the limos pulling up and she jumped on David Hodo and kissed him 🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️ and then we went around to the next limos other side and I opened the back door and she pushed me down into the floorboard of the seat and as I looked up Phillipé was sitting down and he reached down and tapped his lips to mine and some damn rent-a-cop grabbed a handful of my hair and jerked me out of the car. If that jerk had left me alone I would have just floated out!!🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️.
14 minutes in still no idea what happened to them😡
Fantastic documentary , well done 👍🏻
Thanks!
The narrator is awful though. Stopped watching after three minutes because of that nasty eastern european accent.
I meant Victor Willis he was the original lead singer. He was definitely not gay.
3 of them were not gay
No, he was the only one who was straight. He was often convicted of domestic violence, and drug abuse.
@@annaritaranalli1791No, only Victor Willis
Mister ray simpson remained my fav lead singers in that group
I saw them in Canton and didn't know they were a factor in the gay crowd??
At 11:51 ...At first I hated the concept of this album....Years later...I found it was musical genius...
Brilliant group amazing how they got together and how they sung such wonderful songs
I have to make another comment after Victor Wallace RaySimpson Valerie Simpson’s brother became the lead singer. My friend I worked with was the chef for Ashford and Simpson so I know this is a fact.
Macho man is a very ironic song to me
Favorite group
Until "81 they did gorgeous songs
Morali had a few post disco hits in europe. US is not the center of the world. Morali was a genius composer considering that willis only made very ininteresting simple lyrics because morali was not fluent in english.
One of my favorite groups of all time. I still remember in Middle School, while wearing a Village People T-shirt, someone comes up and says, "You know they're gay right?" I thought about it, shrugged, and continued being a fan. I still don't get the whole BS, I mean, like the dude in Rock Star says, "I don't give a crap who yer shaggin' mate, just do your job." And man, the Village People were great.
Glenn hugues could sang too as solo
I wonder how it would've been like if Rob Halford replaced Glenn Hughes upon his passing?
@@BenjaminH134 ....love ROB....but he doesn't DANCE...
A friend of the indian guy told me Morali saw him dancing with a cowboy and decided to convince them to bring more macho types and make a band. So the indian guy started it all.
Victor Willis is my favorite from the village people.
Loved the Construction Worker
THE COMPUTER VOICE CAN'T EVEN SAY THE NAMES RIGHT. I STOPPED WATCHING THESE AND BLOCKED ALL OF THEM AS SHOULD EVERYONE WHO ARE JUST DISGUSTED THAT WE WERE LISTENING TO CRAP.
Glad victor finally got paid but he should have left remaining members after he put his new version of the band after he got paid and performed again, new version of the village people is a shell of it's self
IT'S A TOTAL SHIT SHOW!
SHELL IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. IT'S A SHIT SHOW AND AN EMBARRASSMENT. THE WHAT EVER "THEY" CALL THEMSELVES, THINK YOU JUST PUT ON A COSTUME AND AUTOMATICALLY THE CLOTHES GIVE YOU SUPER PERFORMANCE POWER. THOSE FAKES CAN'T DANCE AND CAN'T SING AND CAN'T DO THE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY HENCE WHY THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE CHOREO AND DUMB IT DOWN TO THE CRAP IT IS NOW.
They got old.
We did too 🥴🥴😭
One of them died young
Victor Willis was great as the policeman!
Saw them in1977 in Seattle. They put on a great performance.
Oh hell nawl. Not 20 mins of this crap sounds
12:25 the arkward moment when you rebrand your channel so your subsribe call now refers to a different channel.
Hi there! I had to change the name because there was already another channel with the same name. 😒
Voice seems one of a 🤖
Could we get someone other than English as a second language to narrate please?
Most of the world speaks "English as a Second language" so her diction is actually accessible to more people.
What a great job on your channel 💯
Seriously, the only reason they were as popular as they were at the time is because we the youth were innocent. We just wanted great music and we had no clue what gay was. We would NEVER have supported this mess otherwise.
VICTOR DID NOT DECIDE TO LEAVE, HE WAS FIRED BY MORALI AND BELOLO .
So glad you include this.
@@rickberglund2134 YOU'RE WELCOME. I WORKED WITH VP, WITH THE 2 GROUPS AND I AM VERY INFORMED WITH THE HISTORY, BOTH AS A FORMER MEMBER AND STRAIGHT FROM HODO'S MOUTH AND VICTOR HIMSELF. IT'S A SHIT SHOW NOW SADLY WITH VW'S NEW VERSION. SO SAD TO WATCH. PAINFUL TO WATCH!
So they sucked pipes?