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| | Celebrity Deathwatch: Glenn Hughes, Village People "Biker", 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/17/obit.hughes.ap/index.html Glenn Hughes, biker in Village People, dead at 50 March 17, 2001 Web posted at: 9:12 AM EST (1412 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- Glenn Hughes, a singer who performed as the mustachioed, leather-clad biker in the disco band the Village People, has died of lung cancer. |
 | | Hughes, who died on March 4, was one of six men who formed the Village People, a disco group that capitalized on images of the American male popular in New York's gay nightclubs. |
 | | Hughes was working as a toll collector when friends dared him to respond to an advertisement seeking "gay singers and dancers, very good-looking and with mustaches." The band was an improbable success, expertly balancing a campy and suggestive image that was never too suggestive for the mass market. |
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