Mickey Gilley, who ran one of the world’s largest honky tonks in Pasadena, Texas and was credited with helping foster country music’s revival in the late ’70s as a key part of the Urban Cowboy film, has died.
He was 86 and his death was announced by the Pasadena, Texas mayor, where the club was located.Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri.
He had just ended a ten-show tour in April and died at home. No cause has been revealed.Gilley’s was a football-field-sized dancehall, boasting a capacity of 6,000.
It caught fire as the center of the John Travolta-Debra Winger film Urban Cowboy in 1978. It also introduced much of the world to mechanical bull riding.Before that, Gilley was a country music singer who made his mark with “Is It Wrong for Loving You,” and had 39 Top Ten Hits on the BIllboard Country Music charts.
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