Sherwood Cryer (September 2, 1927 – August 17, 2009) was a businessman from Texas. His most famous club was Gilley's Club. It was an enormous honky tonk that led to The Movie The Urban Cowboy Starring John Travolta released in 1980.
The club featured in Urban Cowboy (1980), Gilleys, in Pasadena, Texas, was closed down in 1990 (after an out-of-court settlement between Sherwood Cryer, the owner and Mickey Gilley). He now has a club called G's Ice House in Pasadena, Texas.
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