Village People record label says it will sue over Trump YMCA video
The record label behind the Village People has said that it plans to sue Donald Trump over his use of ‘YMCA’ in a video he shared on Twitter as the polls opened in the US last week.Speaking to Agence France-Presse, President of French label Scorpio Music, Jonathan Belolo said: “The beneficiaries of [band co-founders] Messrs Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, like the company Scorpio Music, owner of the work, discovered with amazement this illicit appropriation, which is … for [the] partisan and electoral purposes of Donald Trump, which they would never have accepted”.He added that a legal complaint would be submitted in France and the US “in the next few days**”.**Trump’s use of ‘YMCA’ to close his political rallies during his failed campaign