The Oxford Bar The Oxford Bar The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The pub is chiefly notable for having been featured in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series of novels. The Oxford Bar, or The Ox, is John Rebus's favourite pub in Edinburgh. The Oxford Bar apparently became a public house in 1811, although it was a confectioner's shop in 1843. It was disponed on 30 October 1893 to Andrew Wilson, wines and spirits merchant, and thereafter remained a public bar. The Oxford Bar retains its original compartmentalised form, which many other
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