The song evolved into supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London. He overheard an organ lick that bassist Bill Wyman was fooling around with in a London studio and turned it into the unstoppable, churning pulse of "Jumpin' Jack Flash." The lyric was inspired by Richards' gardener, Jack Dyer, who slogged past as the guitarist and Jagger were coming to the end of an all-night session. Keith Richards was on a historic run in 1968, exploring the open-D blues-guitar tuning for the first time and coming up with some of his most dynamic riffs.
The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Led Zeppelin.I was virtually in tears." John Paul Jones' string arrangement provided the crowning touch, ratcheting up the song's grandeur to stadium-rock proportion.
"The song was bigger than me," said Plant. Meanwhile, back in the band's studio in rural England, Page and Bonham began riffing on an Arabic-sounding set of chords that would perfectly match Plant's desert vision. As he traveled the desert in northwest Africa, Plant envisioned himself driving straight through to Kashmir, on the India-China border. While vacationing in southern Morocco, Plant conjured the lyrics for Led Zeppelin's most ambitious experiment, the centerpiece of 1975's Physical Graffiti. Writers: John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant Songs like that come out in five minutes if I work on them more than, say, 20 minutes, they’re probably not going to work. As soon as you start, you get that magic feeling, an extra feeling. It’s how a basketball player must feel when he starts hitting every shot, when you’re in that zone. When I’m writing a song that I know is going to work, it’s a feeling of euphoria. That song had everything - different melodies, opera, R&B, rock - and it explored all of those different genres in an authentic way, where it felt natural. A great song has all the key elements - melody emotion a strong statement that becomes part of the lexicon and great production. It takes the emotions of a moment and holds it for years to come. When you hear a great song, you can think of where you were when you first heard it, the sounds, the smells.
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