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Victor Willis, the original policeman in the disco band The Village People, is planning his first performance in about 25 years after completing a drug treatment program earlier this year, his publicist said. Willis, 55, will appear at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on Aug. 31 in a show previewing his planned 2008 world tour, publicist Alice Wolf said Friday.
His “Victor Willis Disco Dance Tour” is to begin in March and is expected to include concerts in the U.S., Australia, Britain, Japan, Norway, Germany and Canada, Wolf said.
He’ll come out as the cop and perform Village People hits and his solo work, she said. Willis co-wrote hits such as “Y-M-C-A” and “In the Navy,” Village People standards in the late 1970s. He left the band in 1980.
Prince thrilled his hometown fans with three shows over 12 hours, only stopping when police shut him down early Sunday. The Minneapolis native first performed Saturday at a department store to promote his new cologne, cramming nine songs into a 45-minute set. He then played that night at the Target Center arena.
He capped the night with a return to First Avenue, the club he made famous in the movie “Purple Rain.” “Minneapolis, I am home,” the Purple One declared after the first song at the department store. Minnesota’s governor and the Minneapolis mayor issued proclamations honoring Prince, and fans flew in from all over the country to see the performer.
After the Target Center, Prince waited until nearly 2:45 a.m. before starting the First Avenue show, the first time he had played at the club since 1987.
Clay Aiken was involved in an airplane disturbance with another passenger Saturday while en route to Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma, a newspaper reported. The dispute on a Continental Airlines flight took place between Aiken, who was traveling Saturday morning to a performance at the Brady Theater, and a woman, the Tulsa World reported for Sunday’s editions. FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson said there was a dispute between a male passenger and a woman on the flight but could not confirm the passenger was Aiken.
He said the dispute was over the male passenger’s foot resting on _the woman’s armrest. He said there was an allegation that the woman gave the male _passenger a “minor shove” during the argument.
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