1980 was a confusing time for America. A Southern Christian farmer was president — and a Democrat! — but he was about to be supplanted by a California politician tight with Hollywood — and a ...
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 ...
Mickey Gilley, the country music star whose Texas nightclub served as the inspiration for the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, died on Saturday in Branson, Mo. His death was confirmed to NPR by his publicist ...
His records regularly made the charts for two decades. But he was ultimately best known for his Texas nightclub, which was at the heart of a country music revival. By Bill Friskics-Warren Mickey ...