July 2018 in Music History

Events in Music

Jul 2 Singers Cheryl and Liam Payne announce they are splitting up after two years

Jul 3 Cardi B becomes first female rapper to get two number one US Billboard hits, with "I Like It" with Bad Bunny and J Balvin

Jul 5 English rapper Stormzy announces partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books

Jul 10 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion"

Jul 18 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults

Jul 24 Singer Demi Lovato is hospitalized after a drug overdose in Los Angeles

Jul 26 Sir Paul McCartney performs a secret gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began

Jul 27 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond gives a small thank-you concert to firefighters near his home in Colorado

Jul 31 Rihanna becomes the first black woman to appear on the cover of British Vogue's September issue

Jul 1 Dame Gillian Lynne [Pyrke], British dancer, choreographer and actress, known for Broadway work on "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera," dies at 92
Jul 2 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), dies at 70
Jul 3 William "Bill" Watrous, American jazz trombonist, dies at 79
Jul 3 Richard Swift [Ochoa], American singer and songwriter (The Black Keys), dies of complications from hepatitis at 41
Jul 7 Paul Fetler, American composer (December Stillness; Three Poems By Walt Whitman), dies at 98
Jul 8 Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust) and singer ("Young Love"), dies of complications of deep vein thrombosis at 86
Jul 8 Oliver Knussen, British composer (Where the Wild Things Are, Chicara), dies at 66
Jul 8 Alan Johnson, American screen and stage choreographer (The Producers - "Springtime for Hitler"; Legs Diamond; 3 Emmy Awards), director (To Be Or Not To Be), and dancer (West Side Story),, dies at 81
Jul 29 Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter (Astigmatic), dies of complication from lung cancer at 76