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 ...

Pictures of hard-hatted politicians visiting sites are prized by the media; and celebrities from 1970s disco band the Village People to Bob the Builder have appropriated it. Yet the hard hat is ...

Since then, some 26 performers have donned the hard hats, leather jackets and other trademark outfits in over a dozen iterations of the band. The Village People will perform at President-elect ...

Village People appear in their famous outfits at the Y.M.C.A. on Tottenham Court Road in London on January 1, 1999. Nicky J. Sims/Redferns. Environmental Protection Agency officials have detected ...

Village People quickly found success in England with the single “San Francisco (You Got Me)” in 1977, and then in 1978 they reaped Stateside honours with “Macho Man” followed by No.1 and ...