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9 cze 2021 · Gilley’s became the center of attraction in the movie ‘Urban Cowboy,’ featuring Debra Winger and John Travolta. ‘Urban Cowboy’ tells a relatively simple tale of Bud, who moves from his family farm in Spur, Texas, to Pasadena to work in a refinery.
7 lut 2021 · Take a look back at how the famous Gilley's Club and the infamous movie based on it, 'Urban Cowboy,' changed country music forever.
7 maj 2022 · May 7 (Reuters) - Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas-sized honky-tonk bar was the birthplace of the "Urban Cowboy" music and fashion fads of the 1980s, died at age 86 in...
While staying with Bob and his family, Bud embraces the local nightlife, including Gilley's, a popular Pasadena bar and nightclub. Bud meets fellow nightclub patron, Sissy, at Gilley's. They fall in love, marry soon after and move into a brand-new mobile home.
20 lis 2020 · In the end, Urban Cowboy —the romanticized vision of Gilley’s—manages to capture a place and time when Houston honky-tonkin’ was the state of the art. Gilley’s was a hardcore honky-tonk that accommodated 6,000 and featured all the popular country acts. It wasn’t just big. It was audacious.
5 cze 2020 · Forty years ago Saturday, the movie Urban Cowboy hit theaters. The film starred John Travolta, Debra Winger, and — well, let’s be honest — Gilley’s bar and country dance hall in Pasadena.
8 maj 2022 · 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 at 86. Gilley died Saturday in...