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Mickey Gilley, the country music hitmaker and an inspiration behind Urban Cowboy, is dead at 86
Mickey Gilley, the country music singer with a string of hits in the 1970s and '80s, has died at age 86.The Mayor of Pasadena, Texas, Jeff Wagner announced that the singer had died on Saturday while 'surrounded by his loved ones.'Gilley helped put the city near Houston on the map when he opened the football stadium–sized honky tonkGilley's Club there, which helped inspire the hit John Travolta film Urban Cowboy in 1980. Music legend: Mickey Gilley, the country music singer with a string of hits in the 1970s and '80s, has died at age 86; seen in 2015Gilley died in Branson, Missouri, where hisMickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre was located.Although he was best known for his country music, the singer was a cousin of rock and roll royaltyJerry Lee Lewis.
