Urban Cowboy (1980) follows Bud, a Texas farm boy who hits the big city seeking fortune. At the iconic Gilley’s nightclub, he falls for the independent Sissy, but their clashing views and jealous ...
John Travolta left the disco and entered the honky tonk bar to revive country music in 1980’s romance western Urban Cowboy.
LOS ANGELES — Aaron Latham, a screenwriter, journalist and author whose Esquire magazine story inspired the 1980 smash “Urban Cowboy,” died July 23 in Pennsylvania of complications from Parkinson’s ...
FILE - Country music legend Mickey Gilley, 80, performs at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va. to benefit the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017.
Mickey Gilley, the man who personified “urban cowboy,” died Saturday. He was 86. Gilley died in his adopted hometown of Branson, Mo., according to a statement on his Facebook page. His cause of death ...