Editing Jumpin' Jack Flash (section)

==Inspiration and recording==
Written by [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]],{{sfn|Rice|1982|p=117}} recording on "Jumpin' Jack Flash" began during the ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' sessions of 1968. Regarding the song's distinctive sound, guitarist Richards has said:

{{blockquote|I used a [[Gibson Hummingbird]] acoustic tuned to [[Open D tuning|open D]], six string. Open D or open E, which is the same thing – same intervals – but it would be slackened down some for D. Then there was a [[Capo (musical device)|capo]] on it, to get that really tight sound. And there was another guitar over the top of that, but tuned to [[Nashville tuning (high strung)|Nashville tuning]]. I learned that from somebody in [[George Jones]]' band in San Antonio in 1964. The high-strung guitar was an acoustic, too. Both acoustics were put through a Philips cassette recorder. Just jam the mic right in the guitar and play it back through an extension speaker.<ref name="tioos-jjf">{{cite web |last=McPherson |first=Ian |title=Track Talk: Jumpin' Jack Flash |url=http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOJumpin.html |access-date=22 June 2007 |archive-date=2 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702220036/http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOJumpin.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards' country house, when they were awoken one morning by the clumping footsteps of his gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. Surprised, Jagger asked what it was, and Richards responded: "Oh, that's Jack – that's jumpin' Jack." The lyrics evolved from there.<ref name="tioos-jjf" /><ref name="fourflicks">{{cite video |people=The Rolling Stones |title=Four Flicks |medium=DVD |publisher=Warner Music Vision |date=2003}}</ref> Humanities scholar [[Camille Paglia]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Paglia|first=Camille|author-link=Camille Paglia|year=1991|title=[[Sexual Personae|Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson]]|location=New York|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=0-679-73579-8|page=281}}</ref> speculated that the song's lyrics might have been partly inspired by [[William Blake]]'s poem "[[The Mental Traveller]]": "She binds iron thorns around his head / And pierces both his hands and feet / And cuts his heart out of his side / To make it feel both cold & heat." The main riff is similar to their song "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]".

Jagger said in a 1995 interview with ''Rolling Stone'' that the song arose "out of all the acid of ''Satanic Majesties''. It's about having a hard time and getting out. Just a metaphor for getting out of all the acid things."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wenner |first=Jann S. |author-link=Jann Wenner |date=14 December 1995 |title=Jagger Remembers: Mick's most comprehensive interview ever |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers/page/2/ |access-date=26 October 2017 |archive-date=5 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205203421/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers/page/2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> And in a 1968 interview, Brian Jones described it as "getting back to ... the funky, essential essence" following the psychedelia of ''Their Satanic Majesties Request''.<ref name=pc54>{{Pop Chronicles |54| 2|Mick Jagger & Brian Jones}}</ref>

In his autobiography ''Stone Alone'', [[Bill Wyman]] has said that he came up with the song's distinctive main guitar riff, working on it with [[Brian Jones]] and [[Charlie Watts]] before it was ultimately credited to Jagger and Richards.{{sfn|Egan|2013|p=119}} In ''Rolling with the Stones'', Wyman credits Jagger with vocals, Richards with guitar and bass guitar, Jones with guitar, Watts with drums and himself with organ on the track with producer Jimmy Miller adding backing vocals.

According to the book ''Keith Richards: The Biography'' by [[Victor Bockris]], the line "I was born in a crossfire hurricane", was written by Richards, and refers to his being born amid the bombing and air raid sirens of [[Dartford]], England, in 1943 during World War II.

Two [[Music video|promotional videos]] were made that May: one of a live performance and another of the band lip syncing in makeup.