Mickey Gilley, country singer who inspired ‘Urban Cowboy’ dies at 86
Mickey Gilley, the Texas honky-tonk whose name inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide boom of Western-themed nightclubs, has died. He was 86 years old. Gilley, who helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre in Branson, Missouri, died on Saturday. He had been performing as recently as last month, but his health … Read more
