Mickey Gilley, who helped 'Urban Cowboy,' dies at 86

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Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy"

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and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86.

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Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre.

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He had been performing as recently as last month, but was in failing health over the past week.

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Gilley — cousin of rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis — opened Gilley's, "the world's largest honky tonk," in Pasadena, Texas, in the early 1970s.

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