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- Category: Recording
- Unveiled: 18 Oct 1984
- Star rank: 1694
- Address:
6988 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101420, -118.341212
Mickey Gilley
Biography
Mickey Gilley from the cover of his “Super Hits” album
Source: Freebase
Mickey Leroy Gilley (born March 9, 1936) is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well. Among his biggest hits are “Room Full of Roses,” “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,” and the remake of the Soul hit “Stand by Me”. He is also the cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, Jim Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart.
Fact file
- Birth name: Mickey Leroy Gilley
- Born: March 9, 1936 (age 75)
- Origin: Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.
- Genres: Country Pop Countrypolitan
- Occupations: Singer-songwriter
- Instruments: Vocals Piano
- Years active: 1964–present
- Labels: Playboy Records Epic Records Branson Records Varèse Sarabande
- Associated acts: Jerry Lee Lewis Carl McVoy Charly McClain
- Website: www.gilleys.com
Read more about Mickey Gilley at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Orange and Highland
Nearby you will also find Dennis Weaver, Richard Denning, George E. Stone, Bette Midler, and many others.