Month: May 2020

Dalester, Going Postal
20th Century

The Wrecking Crew

1st May 2020 Going Postal 0

Wiki: “The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognised in their [more…]

18th Century

Gibbon

1st May 2020 Going Postal 0

Like others of our more important historians (Macaulay, Starkey), Gibbon wasn’t a professional academic. He was a gentleman, and an amateur, in the best sense. Early in his career he found the thing he most [more…]