THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
Village People is an American disco group that formed in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American masculine cultural stereotypes as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. The group scored a number of disco and dance hits, including “Macho Man”, “Go West”, the classic club medley of “San Francisco (You’ve Got Me) / In Hollywood”, “In the Navy”, and their greatest hit, “Y.M.C.A.”. They have sold more than 100 million records world-wide. (More from Wikipedia)
Several bands from the disco era have managed to retain their popularity to this day, such as the Village People and KC and the Sunshine Band.
(March 2012)
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Fergie Frederiksen has enjoyed a long, prosperous and highly varied career in music. After he left Trillion, Frederiksen was involved with a disco movie called Can’t Stop the Music, featuring Village People. Can’t Stop the Music is notorious as the first recipient of the Golden Raspberry Award (“Razzie”) for Worst Picture of the Year; in fact, Razzies founder John J. B. Wilson got the idea for the Razzies after reading of a double billing of that movie with Xanadu, a film of the same time period that featured Olivia Newton-John. The soundtrack album Can’t Stop the Music, however, fared better and reached the Top 50 in the Billboard album charts. Under the pseudonym “David London” (in order to keep his rock image separate), Frederiksen had two songs on the soundtrack album. He also released a solo album in 1981, David London.
(October 2012)
