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A Song for the Dark Times is the 23rd installment in the Inspector Rebus series written by Ian Rankin. The phrase "dark times" was meant to refer to the era of Brexit, autocratic leaders, and so on, as of 2019, but the book was published in 2020, in a period of COVID-19 lockdowns . [ 1 ]
Rankin has said that the story was inspired by several instances of police violence or misbehaviour, such as the 2021 murder of Sarah Everard, rousing him to devise a plot in which "Rebus is trying to clear his name as a bad cop, but Rebus is a bad cop," that is, he is part of the culture that produces bad cops. [4]
Dark Times may refer to: Star Wars: Dark Times, a 2006 comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics "Dark Times", a song by Shihad from Love Is the New Hate, 2005 "Dark Times", a song on The Weeknd's album Beauty Behind the Madness, 2015; Dark Times, an album by Vince Staples, 2024
Then a sound recordist with close ties to the dead Russian poet dies at home in an arson fire. Rebus discovers that the dead poet had eaten his last meal with the recordist, then had a drink with Morris Gerald Cafferty, Rebus's gangster nemesis, in a bar where Cafferty was meeting a Russian oligarch and a Labour official from the Scottish ...
Several songs from the show are missing, and "All the Things You Are" appears four times on the collection. Very Warm for May was transferred (loosely) to the silver screen for the MGM movie Broadway Rhythm with only "All the Things You Are" retained from the musical and the plot rewritten yet again. The actor George Murphy plays snippets of ...
Using the play within a play structure, Brooklyn focuses on a group of five ragtag homeless musicians known as the City Weeds. The group periodically transforms a street corner under the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge into a stage where they present their play about a Parisian singer Brooklyn, named after the New York City borough from which her wayward father Taylor hailed.
Plot [ edit ] Inspired by the Eskimo shaman Oogruk, Russel Susskit takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of his village and to find his own "song" of himself, hating the sound of snowmobiles and his father's coughing in the morning.
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