Everyone may have their lucky album. Their favorite song. Or even their reference year. But what the Rolling Stones have cast in stone between 1968 and 1972 is unanimously respected. A golden age caged within four albums that will be saddled with appropriate superlatives: mythical, legendary, unavoidable, historic, etc. The battle was by no means already won, as Mick Jagger’s band was losing ground at the end of the 1960s against their rivals the Beatles. Their psychedelic and exotic Their Satanic Majesties Request from 1967 was no match against Lennon’s and McCartney’s Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released a year earlier and the Stones spent more time in court than in studios. Their historical manager Andrew Loog Oldham even threw in the towel! However, a simple song manages to reshuffle the cards and propel the Stones in a new creative tunnel: Jumpin' Jack Flash. Forgotten are the psychedelic experiences that finally don’t suit them and they return to the basics with a funky and brutal rock ’n’ roll. A single that will not feature on any album but will pave the way for the tetralogy to come…
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