 Kristofferson also spent much of the period working on "Heaven's Gate", an epic film that opened to disastrous reviews in November 1980, devastating his movie career.He toured with friend Willie Nelson in the winter of 1979-1980 in support of Nelson’s tribute LP "Sings Kristofferson", which made the Top 5 and spawned the hit single “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again).The song would also just miss the top spot on the country charts in 1981 for Tompall Glaser and the Glaser Brothers, two more examples of artists having far more success with Kristofferson’s music than he himself was having.