PASADENA, Texas -- Country music artist Mickey Gilley dies at 86 years old, according to Mayor of Pasadena Jeff Wagner. Since 1957, the Mississippi native has been creating music based on the sound of ...

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Mickey Gilley, the man who personified “urban cowboy,” died Saturday. He was 86. Gilley died in his adopted hometown of Branson, Mo., according to a statement on his Facebook page. His cause of death ...

PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) -- An office manager for country musician Mickey Gilley says the artist and his son are doing okay after a car accident. Jeff McDonald told Eyewitness News that Gilley and his ...

LA PORTE, TX -- Mickey Gilley and a Friendswood developer are currently working with La Porte city officials to open a new Gilley's live music venue and dance hall to serve as the centerpiece for a ...

This browser does not support the Video element. PASADENA, Texas - Honky Tonk Legend, Academy of Country Music award-winner, and Pasadena's own Mickey Gilley passed away Saturday and the community ...

HOUSTON The movie Urban Cowboy made country music cool, a mechanical bull famous, and launched singer Mickey Gilley into super stardom. 'Urban Cowboy kicked my career in high gear, and opened so many ...

Sherwood Cryer, who co-founded legendary super-size Pasadena honky-tonk Gilley’s and watched it rocket to worldwide fame in the wake of 1980’s Urban Cowboy before a bitter falling out with his partner ...

When Mickey Gilley teamed up with fellow Texas country veteran Johnny Lee for an Urban Cowboy Reunion tour some two years ago, he didn’t expect fan response would lead to an extension of the tour ...

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 in ...

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 ...