David Hodo has worn a hard hat to work for three decades, but he’s not a builder. He’s the original — and current — construction worker for the Village People, a disco-era set of singers ...

Randy Jones, the original cowboy in the Village People waves to the crowd on Ninth Street in Durham Sept. 27, 2014. The 65-year-old Raleigh native made the Billboard charts for the first time in ...

When the Village People first summited the Sept. 3, 1977 Dance Club Songs chart (then called Disco Action), there wasn’t even a fully formed group to perform its chart-topping tunes. The disco ...