News has just reached me of the death of country singer, piano player, and songwriter Mickey Gilley on May 7 in Branson, Missouri. Another lively and distinctive voice from country music’s most ...

Mickey Gilley, who ran one of the world’s largest honky tonks in Pasadena, Texas and was credited with helping foster country music’s revival in the late ’70s as a key part of the Urban Cowboy film, ...

Mickey Gilley, country music star and owner of a famed eponymous Texas honky-tonk that inspired the movie “Urban Cowboy,” died Saturday at the age of 86. Gilley “passed peacefully with his family and ...

Mickey Gilley, the smooth-voiced, piano-playing country crooner who helped popularize the “Urban Cowboy” movement of the Eighties, died Saturday in Branson, Missouri. He was 86. Gilley’s publicist ...

Looking back on the life of Mickey Gilley, who died May 7 in Branson, Mo., at the age of 86, one must consider the musician and the country music era that he helped to define. The singer-pianist was a ...

Mickey Gilley, a country singer and actor who was featured in the 1980 John Travolta film “Urban Cowboy,” has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, having just played 10 shows on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

But there's one country singer whose star never stops shining in our area. Grammy award winner, Mickey Gilley, and his famous honky-tonk "Gilley's" put the city of Pasadena on the map. His laugh is ...

Mickey Gilley, the man whose name put a Pasadena honky-tonk on the map in the '70s and lead to a run on cowboy hats and pearl snap shirts, hasn't seen "Urban Cowboy" in a year or so. "I watch it if it ...

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." By The Associated Press Country star Mickey ...