DER US-AMERIKANISCHE COUNTRY-SÄNGER UND PIANIST MICKEY GILLEY IST GESTORBEN

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.

Such hit songs as “Stand By Me” and “Lonely Nights” created a bridge from the artist’s country roots to an ascension on pop charts and were credited with popularizing the Urban Cowboy movement.

He had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No. 1 songs and received six Academy of Country Music Awards. He also worked on occasion as an actor, with appearances on “Murder, She Wrote,” “The Fall Guy,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/07/country-singer-mickey-gilley-dies/

The face of a famous Texas honky-tonk

Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Gilley's family included artist Jerry Lee Lewis and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart as cousins. He learned to play piano as a child and began his professional music career in the 1950s when he recorded his first single, "Ooh Wee Baby."

Hazel Cills

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097455473/mickey-gilley-who-helped-inspire-urban-cowboy-dies-at-86

Mickey Gilley, Country Music’s Urban Cowboy, Dead at 86

The piano-playing crooner had hits with “Stand By Me,” “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,” and an appearance in John Travolta’s 1980 box-office smash about a mechanical bull

Joseph Hudak

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/mickey-gilley-urban-cowboy-dead-obit-1350370/

Le chanteur country Mickey Gilley, qui a inspiré Urban Cowboy, décède à 86 ans

Gilley, un cousin du pionnier du rock’n’roll Jerry Lee Lewis, a ouvert Gilley’s – "le plus grand honky tonk du monde" – à Pasadena, au Texas, au début des années 1970. Au milieu de la décennie, il était un propriétaire de club prospère et avait connu son premier succès commercial avec "Room Full of Roses". Il a commencé à produire régulièrement des succès country, notamment "Window Up Above", "She’s Pulling Me Back Again" et l’hymne honky-tonk "Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time".

https://lesactualites.news/monde/le-chanteur-country-mickey-gilley-qui-a-inspire-urban-cowboy-decede-a-86-ans-pays/

US-Country-Star Mickey Gilley gestorben

Der aus Natchez in Mississippi stammende Musiker sei erst kürzlich von einer Tournee mit zehn Auftritten nach Hause zurückgekehrt. Gilley, ein Cousin von Rock'n'Roll-Star Jerry Lee Lewis, hatte in seiner langen Karriere 17 Nummer Eins Country-Hits, darunter "Room Full of Roses", "I Overlooked an Orchid" und "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time“.

dpa

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/musik-us-country-star-mickey-gilley-gestorben-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-220508-99-203853

Audios / Videos:

Mickey Gilley - Stand by me 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4MKeTv-7Q

A Headache Tomorrow (Or A Heartache Tonight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmemkKGqJ20

Room Full of Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5CfY3qv3a0

Mickey Gilley - Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJlWzKeFHU

Jerry Lee Lewis & Mickey Gilley - Live at Gilley's Club 1982 (DVD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gKd78dhw8s

Dave Ward's Houston: Mickey Gilley reflects on Urban Cowboy, 40 years later