The Village People Audio CD's & Vinyl Record Albums

The Village People were a novelty disco band of the late 1970s. The gay-themed group were as well known for their outrageous on-stage costumes (the members dressing up as a police officer, an American Indian chief, a construction worker, a soldier, a leatherman (biker), and a cowboy as for their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. The gay innuendo present in these lyrics was apparently sufficiently subtle to be missed by some at the time. The band was assembled (in 1977) and managed by two French musicians, Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, specifically to showcase and perform their disco music creations. Much like Frank Farian's Boney M or The Spice Girls, the group was manufactured. Despite the French song writers, the songs were all in English. The band's name references a well-known gay area of New York City, Greenwich Village. Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo got the inspiration for creating an assembly of American man archetypes based on the gay men of The Village who frequently dressed in various fantasy ways.