Texarkana Gazette

NOW THERE WAS A SONG | Mickey Gilley scores a hit with 'You Don't Know Me'

This week in 1981: Sandra Day O'Conner became the first woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court; the first solar-powered airplane flew across the English Channel, completing a 165-mile trip 25 ...
Odessa American

Mickey Gilley, who helped inspire ‘Urban Cowboy,’ dies at 86

NEW YORK Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday ...