Inspector Rebus span a broad spectrum of Scotland, including council estates, tenements, business districts, nightclubs, prisons, dying mining towns, secluded villages and desolate hillsides, as well as the better-known pubs and streets of Edinburgh. Some of these locations are fictional, although they may be based on real places. For example, the Pilmuir estate is a conflation of the two real Edinburgh locations Pilton and Muirhouse. Other locations, such as the Oxford Bar, Arden Street, and St Leonards police station, are real. Frequent references to real places, or local politics firmly ground the Rebus series in the real world. Another strong feature of
Connection (The Rolling Stones song) was performed many times by NRPS, with Jerry Garcia and Marmaduke Dawson singing. In the book Black and Blue (1997) by Ian Rankin, police inspector John Rebus, upon hearing Montrose's recording of Connection in a bar during a murder investigation, calls it, "one of the very best cover versions of a Stones song". Connection (The Rolling Stones song) "Connection" is a song by British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1967 album "Between the Buttons". It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards), features vocals by both of them and is said