LA PORTE, TX -- Mickey Gilley and a Friendswood developer are currently working with La Porte city officials to open a new Gilley's live music venue and dance hall to serve as the centerpiece for a ...

On this day (May 7) in 2022, Mickey Gilley died of complications from bone cancer in Springfield, Missouri, at the age of 86. He had a long string of hits in the 1970s. Then, his nightclub inspired ...

Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday in ...