Jumpin 'Jack Flash

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Jumpin 'Jack Flash is the, fourteenth in, first published in May 1968 the UK published single of the Rolling Stones and the song of the same name.

The Rolling Stone listed the piece in 2013 in their list of the 100 greatest Rolling Stones songs at number 7.

Origin and meaning

Jumpin 'Jack Flash is considered one of the most important recordings of the Rolling Stones. Without this hit, her career would be in decline at the time - the last big hit (Let's Spend the Night Together) was already over a year ago, the last number one hit in England ( Paint It Black ) even more than two years - probably far less spectacular. After the psychedelic adventures of 1967, after imprisonment and swan songs in the English music press, the publication is considered a kind of rebirth of the Rolling Stones.

The song was recorded in March and April 1968 and initially only released as a single with the B-side Child of the Moon (" Moon Girl"), written by Jagger and Richards. The recording was also the debut for Jimmy Miller as the band's producer. In Great Britain , the single was released on Friday, May 24, 1968 and came there at number 1 on the charts. In Germany , too , the song was number 1 in the singles charts. In the US , the single was released on Saturday, June 1, 1968 and peaked at number 3. The first album the song was released on was Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) in 1969.

As in Street Fighting Man, Richards used an openly tuned acoustic guitar that he recorded with an overdriven tape recorder. The guitar riff, which, according to Bill Wyman in his autobiography, goes back to a basic idea he developed on the keyboard , was transformed by Keith Richards into a three and a half minute long, “sparkling, perfect devilish” while recording the album Beggars Banquet in the Olympic Studios in London Outbreak full of raw, driving force and pristine energy, perfected by Mick Jagger's heated, shameless and powerful vocals ”(Steve Appleford). However, Bill Wyman had to refrain from being named as a co-author. As almost always with the Rolling Stones, only Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were named as authors of the song. In his autobiography Stone Alone , Bill Wyman gives the background: "It often happened that basic ideas and other ideas from Brian , Charlie or me ended up in the melting pot during long studio sessions, but after a few hours or days the origins of our proposals disappeared ...". In the final version, Richard played the electric bass and not - as usual - bassist Wyman, who instead played the electronic organ .

In the promotional video they presented the song, which in cryptic lines tells of a dark and brutal childhood full of poverty and abuse, in war paint. They were soon confronted with accusations that their music was under satanic influence. Keith Richards denies in his autobiography that the song title would mean "heroin intoxication"; "Jack" is a slang term for heroin in English. In fact, Jack was the name of his gardener. 1995 explained Mick Jagger of the magazine Rolling Stone , the text is then "only for him Metaphor been out of all the drug stuff to come out."

The piece is one of the standards at the Rolling Stones concerts. An early live version of the song is on the 1970s album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! .

Others

In the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson , the author cited Mick Jagger with the line "I think I busted a button on my trousers," which Mick Jagger in the live version of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! said. In the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, with Johnny Depp ), the song appears during the closing scene and into the credits. The main character Raoul Duke drives into the sunset and holds a monologue. The song does not appear on the film's official soundtrack because the Stones allow their music to be used in the media, but not to be published on soundtracks or compilations.

literature

  • Bill Wyman, Ray Coleman: Stone Alone. The inside story of the Rolling Stones ("Stone alone"). Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-41390-7 .
  • Steve Appleford: The Rolling Stones, Rip This Joint. The story for each song ("The Rolling Stones - it's only rock 'n' roll"). Rockbuch-Verlag, Schlüchtern 2002, ISBN 3-927638-11-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-rolling-stones-songs-20131015/jumpin-jack-flash-aa968-19691231
  2. ^ Keith Richards, Life, German edition, page 403