Mickey Gilley, a musician who scored more than three dozen top-10 country hits and whose honky-tonk club inspired the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy" and the "cowboy chic" fashion trend that followed, died Saturday. He was 86.
Gilley died "surrounded by loved ones," according to a statement from Pasadena, Texas, Mayor Jeff Wagner, who added, "Our prayers for comfort and peace are with Mickey's family, his loved ones and his fans." A cause of death was not given. He had been touring recently and had performed 10 shows in April, his representatives said.
The Natchez, Miss., native, the son of Arthur Fillmore Gilley and Irene (Lewis) Gilley, grew up in Ferriday, La., and his cousins included musician Jerry Lee Lewis and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. (Gilley would later joke that "my cousin Jimmy Lee makes more money than both Jerry Lee and I put together.")
