![]() Interestingly, given it such an electric sounding record, Keith Richards played the song’s unbeatable riff on amplified acoustic guitars: Keith said in his 2010 book Life: “With Jumpin' Jack Flash and Street Fighting Man I'd discovered a new sound I could get out of an acoustic guitar. It has also meant that, for the last 50 years, album buyers had to buy a Stones ‘Best Of’ collection. ![]() Which may have made sense at the time – and was the way things were done in the ‘60s - but in hindsight, it left an album that was one of the Stones’ greatest considerably less than it could’ve been. Originally intended for Beggar’s Banquet, the band were so happy with the track that it was left off the album and released as a single instead. This week marks the 50 th anniversary of what some people, including at least one of us here at ILYOS, reckon is the greatest rock-n-roll record ever made, the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”. Rolling Stones, 1968. Photo by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns/Getty Images.
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