BREAKING Mickey Gilley, country music singer-songwriter who gained fame with 'Urban Cowboy,' dies at 86
Forty years ago, Houston rolled out the red carpet for the star-studded world premiere of Urban Cowboy! Dave Ward's Houston looks back at how it all started - with a mechanical bull!
Meanwhile, the giant nightspot's attractions, including its famed mechanical bull, led to the 1980 film"Urban Cowboy," starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and regarded by many as a countrified version of Travolta's 1977 disco smash,"Saturday Night Fever." The film inspired by Gilley's club was based on an Esquire article by Aaron Latham about the relationship between two regulars at the club.
But the club shut down in 1989 after Gilley and his business partner Sherwood Cryer feuded over how to run the place. A fire destroyed it soon after.
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