Musician, Actor. He was a country singer and actor best known for spearheading the successful Urban Cowboy movement in country music. In 1980, Gilley appeared in the film "Urban Cowboy" with John Travolta, Debra Winger, and Johnny Lee. On March 2, 2002, Gilley, along with his two famous double first cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart, were inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame in Ferriday, Louisiana. Gilley's Dallas, an entertainment complex in Dallas, is named for Gilley, and in 2020, a road in Pasadena, Texas, was renamed in his honor as Mickey Gilley Boulevard. Including the mechanical bull running, scenes from "Urban Cowboy" were filmed in Gilley's gigantic honky-tonk. Throughout his career, Gilley had 17 # 1 Billboard's Hot Country Songs and 39 top 10 hits, including "A Headache Tomorrow (Or a Heartache Tonight)," "Stand By Me," "Room Full of Roses," "Lonely Nights, True Love Ways," "You Don't Know Me," and "Fool For Your Love." With his #1 hit "Stand By Me," the "Urban Cowboy" film soundtrack remained at # 1 on Top Country Albums for eight weeks and crossed over from country music to pop music, reaching #3 US Billboard  200. Mickey Gilley was awarded Top Male Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year in 1976 by the Academy of Country Music, as well as Album of the Year, Single of the Year for "Bring it On Home to Me," and Song of the Year for "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time" In 2013, Gilley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. For his contribution to the recording industry, Mickey Gilley has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California. He married three times, divorced twice, and had four children. In 2002, he had a serious fall, resulting in four fractured vertebrae, and even with intense physical therapy, he did not regain his full body function yet did walk again. He died from the complications of cancer.