{"id":527958,"date":"2026-07-01T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:32:09","slug":"victor-willis-village-people-lead-singer-dies-aged-74-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527958\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Willis, Village People lead singer, dies aged 74 &#8211; The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNLWN2cm52MkcyZUh0R3R5YWFFbGVCS3c5TUpBV1VLeTNWdENWdEtfTC1iNG5XcFliSlpqNm4yZTJSRXlxTHBiMk1UMDN6YkJoNWlLRkJpWnFOU2RGR1NabmJ4alZjUC16VnVuVFRKcGkzVm9LaEw2WFc5VFVlSm8xeWhTYWtGR0xsTDFTRGE4eUVSU1NabjJpRHNuZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victor Willis, Village People lead singer, dies aged 74<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxOc0E2TkVpWTZOY0JHWE9Cano1Y29wUDJycXdOUEZ6R3VVNlNXRTdCQkRvT3JVckNtTV9zNWpDZEp2SXliMEh5aTUyb2FQU1ZtV25ESHNqLTdISENuM2RydENhMVY5TkFhVzRCeTZIWUlxZU5raElDTHgwckhyUzc5TmNoR3Rjdmw2VkpMQ2E2aFVRZWgxSTg3VWZJalRIaUtYejhBdEhFOFo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Village People lead singer Victor Willis dies aged 74<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE40TUF6dWpoRDIxRVZnSTRVak9rbWxpTkhpdHpIR3N1T3J2U1pEX3FTeXVDb0lEb2JNT2tiUE4wbjFtQzFHVHR6THF2dW1SejBOU0hWakhTMW56Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Village People frontman Victor Willis dies aged 74<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE8ySm81cGdtNUM0ZVVaaFBzUDZhQWlIUVVIYlRQM0NkaE1aZkM1dW5ZTHhHOXF2eU9ORWI4Z2l6VFp2MUcyRmlDa0hMNjNKLUFMOHNraWxBVmlkakVsRk50OE80OE81SDJFQVJTejJRTU84Y3dpcGpfOUxYUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Village People frontman Victor Willis has died aged 74<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxQN1NWQ2FmRHN0cVVvTTl6MmpXb2ZZMFQ4NG9zM0JKNUo4Z3NaVkwtS19NeWlRNTJqaXFRTEhmZTFxYnlDR3lObnhhcHhkSmZDRmo2WWRXNU5nU0tmVlpVOTdtN1d0cmF5YUdwaDJ0UWpoXzIzYVY1X0k5SHNRSDdQMkI1Rl9yYnpfQkticVFPQ0tzUlVobUlhLUQ0OExSazg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victor Willis, frontman of Village People, dies age 74<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Willis, Village People lead singer, dies aged 74&nbsp;&nbsp;The TimesVillage People lead singer Victor Willis dies aged 74&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieVillage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-527958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}