Best Picture was formed by two newspaper columnists, Kenny Farquharson (drums) and Euan McColm (guitar), who have known each other since they were young rival political editors on the Scotland on Sunday and the News of the World. Farquharson has form when it comes to making music with a bestselling novelist; he and Ali Smith were at Aberdeen University together in the early 1980s and would busk in Union Street, he on the bongos, she on the mouth organ.

So will the author really allow “Hank Marvin” to bring down a creation at the height of his powers? That would be telling. Though, he still has another decade to go to match Conan Doyle and Holmes … Catherine Beyer. "An Introduction to LaVeyan Satanism and the Church of Satan". About.com Religion & Spirituality. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05 . Retrieved 2015-01-23. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination". In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons. In the Quran, Shaitan, also known as Iblis, is an entity made of fire who was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly created Adam and incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with waswās ("evil suggestions"). a b Schorn, Joel (October 2013). "What is 666 in the Bible?". U.S. Catholic . Retrieved 2018-01-02.William Blake regarded Satan as a model of rebellion against unjust authority [173] and features him in many of his poems and illustrations, [173] including his 1780 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, [173] in which Satan is celebrated as the ultimate rebel, the incarnation of human emotion and the epitome of freedom from all forms of reason and orthodoxy. [173] Based on the Biblical passages portraying Satan as the accuser of sin, [270] Blake interpreted Satan as "a promulgator of moral laws." [270] In visual art Early 6th century Byzantine mosaic Art, depicting Jesus separating the sheep from the goats. The blue angel is possibly the earliest artistic depiction of Satan. [271] Petrusich, Amanda (July 8, 2009). "They've Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues". NY Times . Retrieved October 14, 2020.

However, not all Muslim Sufi mystics are in agreement with a positive depiction of Iblis. Rumi's viewpoint on Iblis is much more in tune with Islamic orthodoxy. Rumi views Iblis as the manifestation of the great sins of haughtiness and envy. He states: "(Cunning) intelligence is from Iblis, and love from Adam." [225] Baháʼí Faith And I threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless" – 2 Enoch 29:4 A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Pilch, John J. (1995), The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Volume 1, Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, ISBN 0-8146-2286-0Bahá (1982) [1912], The Promulgation of Universal Peace, Wilmette, IL: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, pp.294–295, ISBN 0-87743-172-8 Thomsett, Michael C. (2011), Heresy in the Roman Catholic Church: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland & Company, Inc., ISBN 978-0-7864-4448-9 The word without the definite article is used in ten instances, [ citation needed] of which two are translated diabolos in the Septuagint. It is generally translated in English Bibles as 'an accuser' (1x) or 'an adversary' (9x as in Book of Numbers, 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 Kings). In some cases, it is translated as 'Satan': At uni, he fronted a short-lived new-wave outfit called the Dancing Pigs. “We rehearsed in the YWCA in Cowdenbeath. We had four fans. Two were Hells Angels and two were underage girls.”