This Day in Music History – July 18th

1960 – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters released “The Twist.” The song didn’t become a hit until later in the year when Chubby Checker covered it.

1960 – Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now Or Never” was released.

1968 – The Grateful Dead released their 2nd album, “Anthem of the Sun.”

1970 – Pink Floyd and Deep Purple played a free concert at London’s Hyde Park.

1974 – The U.S. Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge.

1984 – Prince’s 7″ single “Let’s Go Crazy”/”Erotic City” was released in the U.S.

1988 -The Beach Boys single “Kokomo” was released.

1988 – A California appeals court upheld a lower courts’ decision to dismiss a case against Ozzy Osbourne and CBS Records. In 1984 a teenager allegedly killed himself after listening to Ozzy’s “Suicide Solution.”

1992 – Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married.

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