RALEIGH, N.C. – In 1977, Randy Jones found himself in New York’s white-hot disco scene, performing as a backup dancer for Grace Jones of Studio 54 notoriety, sporting a Marlboro Man mus… ...

Admit it, you hear the first bars of “Y.M.C.A.” and your hands shoot up in the air. Randy Jones, who returns to his hometown this month for GalaxyCon, gets that.

Even the Village People are surprised Bruce Jenner’s becoming a woman.Randy Jones — a k a the Cowboy from the “Macho Man” band — was spotted at John and Tommy Greco’s K*Rico in Hell ...

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 ...

Why some Village People & others consider “YMCA” a gay song. Randy Jones, who performed as Village People’s cowboy, told Spin magazine in 2008 that he helped inspire Morali to create the ...

Village People were a novelty disco band of the late 1970s. The group were as well known for their outrageous on-stage costumes (the members dressing up as a police officer, an American Indian chief, ...

Randy Jones in his Village People cowboy prime, circa the late 1970s. Jones, raised on country-western music, chose his outfit deliberately: the cowboy and the independence he projects, the ...

Actress Valerie Perrine and Randy Jones of the disco group the Village People clown around during a break in the filming of the movie “Can’t Stop The Music” in New York’s Greenwich Village ...

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 ...