Gilley, owner of the honky-tonk club where the 1980 film was set, once said he thanked John Travolta 'every night before bed for keeping my career alive.'
“If I had one wish in life, I would wish for more time,” Gilley told the Associated Press in March 2001 as he celebrated his 65th birthday. Not that he’d do anything differently, the singer said.
Meanwhile, the giant nightspot’s attractions, including its famed mechanical bull, led to the 1980 film, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger and regarded by many as a countrified version of Travolta’s 1977 disco smash,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. He was married three times, most recently to Cindy Loeb Gilley. He had four children, three with his first wife, Geraldine Garrett, and one with his second, Vivian McDonald.
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