The movie Urban Cowboy was a modest hit upon its 1980 release. Its soundtrack, however, was a much different, more successful story. "And you could already hear the Eagles’ influence on Nashville.

Forty years ago, Urban Cowboy’s soundtrack made the genre a pop phenomenon — and paved the way for its modern hitmakers. By Joe Levy Mickey Gilley remembers the moment he fell for the Urban ...

Urban Cowboy was more than just a movie ... due to the perceived blandness and watering down of "real" country music, which in turn helped lead to the "Neo-traditionalist" wave that ushered ...

[A version of this story was originally published in 2015 for the 35th anniversary of Urban Cowboy.] While the disco aesthetic, the predominant music style at the time, was all about indulging ...

The pop culture impact of Urban Cowboy was immense: Not only did Western wear become a fashion fad, but musically, the soundtrack spawned three country No. 1 hits and six Top 40 singles.

In 1974, he scored his first country music Number One with “Room Full ... country & western cosplay to America as the star of Urban Cowboy, a film about an oil worker who lets off steam riding ...

But if I'd ever heard any country music it was as a child watching Hee-Haw—which I didn't know until many years later was Nashville royalty playing rubes. That is until Urban Cowboy became my ...

(Sadly, the club burned down in an arson fire in 1990.) Trending on Billboard The Urban Cowboy soundtrack remained at No. 1 on Top Country Albums for eight weeks beginning in August 1980 and ...

By Bill Friskics-Warren Mickey Gilley, the singer and piano player whose Texas nightclub was the inspiration for the movie “Urban Cowboy” and the glittering country music revival that ...

Gilley wasn't fond of the story, "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit," when it ran. "I thought it was making fun of country music," he says. "There were parts ...

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 Branson ...

Credited with popularizing the Urban Cowboy movement, Gilley’s music, including hit songs like “Stand By Me,” “Room Full of Roses” and “Lonely Nights,” created a bridge from the ...