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Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well.
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May 8, 2022 · Mickey Gilley, the country singer whose club inspired 'Urban Cowboy,' dies at 86. Updated May 8, 2022 12:42 PM ET Originally published May 8, 2022 4:54 AM ET. Hazel Cills Enlarge this image.
May 8, 2022 · Country singer and actor Mickey Gilley, known for launching the Urban Cowboy movement in Country music and hit songs including "Stand By Me," "Room Full of R...
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Jun 9, 2021 · It started when club owner, Sherwood Cryer, invited country music legend, Mickey Gilley, to join him as a partner in reopening a club he owned that had previously been named Shelley’s. RELATED: Mickey Gilley’s Songs: The Best Songs By Our Favorite Urban Cowboy. The new partners remodeled the club and renamed it into Gilley’s starting in 1971.
May 7, 2022 · Country singer Mickey Gilley, best known as the pioneer of the “urban cowboy” style, died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, his publicist Zach Farnum said. He was 86.
May 7, 2022 · 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.
May 7, 2022 · Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas-sized honky-tonk bar was the birthplace of the "Urban Cowboy" music and fashion fads of the 1980s, died at age 86 in Branson, Missouri, his ...
