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The Village People performed at The Palais theatre in St Kilda on Thursday 25 May 2017. Photo by Ros OGorman

Village People at The Palais Theatre 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Village People Cover An Aussie Classic For Same Sex Marriage

by Paul Cashmere on December 15, 2017

in News

Village People, the Ray Simpson version, have thanked Australia for winning the Same Sex Marriage battle by dedicating their version of an Aussie classic to all Australians.

Village People’s Ray Simpson said “we want to thank you Australia to congratulate you for passing Gay Marriage” before breaking into their own version of ‘Waltzing Matilda’.

Simpson’s Village People, the group that has been the Village People for the past 37 years, toured Australia earlier this year. It is not the Village People (aka Victor Willis version) that is touring Australia this week.

Willis, the original singer of Village People, left in 1980, returned briefly in 1982 and then left again. This year he started legal proceedings with the Simpson version to take back the name. He is touring Australia will a selection of new recruits freshly auditioned only months before this current tour.

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