"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a non-album single in 1968.

[4][7] One of the group's most popular and recognisable songs, it has been featured in films and covered by numerous performers, notably Thelma Houston, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Peter Frampton, Johnny Winter, Leon Russell and Alex Chilton.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,[5] recording on "Jumpin' Jack Flash" began during the Beggars Banquet sessions of 1968.

[9][10] Humanities scholar Camille Paglia[11] 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."

"[12] 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.

[7] 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.

[14][15] A major commercial success, it reached the top of the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number three in the United States.

(2012), and Stray Cats, a collection of singles and rarities included as part of The Rolling Stones in Mono box set (2016).

[22] A cover version of the song, performed by Billy Fogarty, was composed to serve as the final mission of the Nintendo DS rhythm game Elite Beat Agents, in which the titular protagonists use their dancing skills to rally humanity against alien invaders who plan to outlaw all forms of music.

[24] According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon,[25] except where noted: The Rolling Stones Additional musicians ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.