When the Lev RTL awards were announced in Dortmund in 1980, they arrived there as well Gottso Village People led by frontman Victor Willis (71).

Charles was then awarded bronze and the American “burani” were unrivaledly golden. Their velehit YMCA was already moving around the world. Gott fully understood their primacy. “When I return home, I will go to Pragokoncert and try to get you to Prague,” he told Willis.

“Prague is beautiful and we also have the best beer in the world and our people will go crazy at your concert,” added Slavík.

At Pragokoncert, which was an agency that had a monopoly on the import of foreign singers to what was then Czechoslovakia under the Communists, but it burned down. “No one wanted to undermine authority with anti-socialist elements,” said a witness to Lightning.

Village People flew to the Czech Republic for the first time seven years ago, when they danced the festival Venetian! in Liberec. But they did not visit the metropolis for the first time this week Michal David. They sang to him twice in his late sixties at the O2 arena.

The Village People band was entered in the Guinness Book of Records in 2009 after more than 44,000 people danced at the YMCA at one time.

Beer, goulash and shrimp

Village People spent three days in Prague, staying at the Ambassador Hotel on Wenceslas Square. And there they had to prove Gott right. “They really enjoyed Pilsen – except for Victor, who doesn’t drink! And they also basked sirloin, goulash and licked behind their ears. “ Michal David said happily to Blesk.

He invited Victor Willis to his house before the first concert and they prepared the blood for garlic himself. Gott would certainly wish that on his friend. He would be glad he had accomplished something he hadn’t.