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 ...

Urban Cowboy, John Travolta's forgotten Western also starring Debra Winger, is streaming for free on Pluto TV this December.

Looking back on the life of Mickey Gilley, who died May 7 in Branson, Mo., at the age of 86, one must consider the musician and the country music era that he helped to define. The singer-pianist was a ...

1980 was a confusing time for America. A Southern Christian farmer was president — and a Democrat! — but he was about to be supplanted by a California politician tight with Hollywood — and a ...

NEW YORK — Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died ...

Mickey Gilley, the smooth-voiced, piano-playing country crooner who helped popularize the “Urban Cowboy” movement of the Eighties, died Saturday in Branson, Missouri. He was 86. Gilley’s publicist ...

Aaron Latham, a magazine writer whose stylish dispatch from the ringside of a mechanical bull at a Texas honky-tonk saloon inspired “Urban Cowboy,” the 1980 film that evoked the modern American West ...

Jack Plunkett / AP Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley ...

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 ...