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Global News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Global News
Jack White on His Canadian Roots, Love for Science and Why Fame Came as a Surprise to Him
In June 2018, Jack White was in Toronto to perform at Budweiser Stage. Before the show, he sat down with us to talk about everything—from his career to his connection to Canada. 'Canada meant a lot growing up, my father side is from Nova Scotia we had a lot of ties, a lot of history through that. My grandfather travelled across Canada and taught in a railroad car,' White says. 'Also growing up in Detroit basically across the street from Canada.' He went on to say that it was currently a 'difficult time in America' and that he 'couldn't even watch the news anymore.' Just the weekend before, while headlining The Governors Ball in New York City, he changed the lyrics to his song 'Icky Thump' to 'Icky Trump'. Although, he noted that artists shouldn't speak out as a way to pander for applause. He says, 'sometimes something comes up and it makes sense…it's hard to ignore.' Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy White is known for mixing it up on stage, bringing different talents together to create his band. The most important element for him is the drums. 'I've always played to the drummer,' he says. 'That's the most important element of the band to me and, whether it's Meg White or Daru Jones or Patrick Keeler – I've been very lucky to play with some of the best drummers I've ever seen myself, live.' Story continues below advertisement He also operates in a no-phone zone, asking concertgoers to attend without their phones. 'It's an interesting experiment. I thought people were going to take to it negatively but, people have taken to it incredibly positively. Everybody walking out of the show says, 'I loved that, that was amazing, I wish all concerts were like that!' I think it's starting to catch on, other artists seem to be wanting to do this and it's great.' Despite his own fame, it's scientists who leave him starstruck. 'Neil deGrasse Tyson, or I was with the family of Carl Sagan once. We put out a record with Carl Sagan's voice on it through Third Man Records. Those are the people I really respect,' he says. Becoming famous was something that came about unexpectedly to him. 'I was only hoping that I would be able to continue doing upholstery, I had my own shop, which I had when I was 21…and I thought I was just going to do that for the rest of my life and I was hoping that I would be able to play in a band on weekends when I had free time, and maybe one day make a record.' White's former band, The White Stripes (which disbanded in 2011) is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November 8th, 2025. With bandmate Meg White known for her intense privacy, there's growing speculation online that White may attend the ceremony solo.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The White Stripes headed to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; 22nd Detroit act to be inducted
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was probably the furthest thing from the minds of Jack White and Meg White when they stepped into a gritty Cass Corridor bar to play their first gig for a handful of folks. But 28 years later, the White Stripes are indeed headed for posterity in the hall of fame: The Detroit duo is part of a 2025 class of inductees revealed Sunday night, also including Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast and Soundgarden. When the White Stripes are officially inducted during a Nov. 8 ceremony in Los Angeles, they'll become the 22nd Detroit artist enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's prestigious performer wing. It's a legacy that began in 1987, when Aretha Franklin was the rock hall's first female inductee. The 2025 honorees were revealed Sunday night on 'American Idol,' part of a broader RRHOF-Disney-ABC alliance that will include a live stream of the Nov. 8 ceremony on Disney+ and a later special on ABC-TV, which will then live on Hulu. In the years following their summer 1997 debut at Detroit's Gold Dollar, the White Stripes became flagbearers for a raw, minimalist movement broadly known as the garage rock revival, leading a wave of bands such as the Strokes and Black Keys. The Detroit duo drew on a deep well of hometown influences for its blues-brewed sound, with Meg White's straightforward drumming undergirding Jack White's explosive guitar and expressively yelped vocals. Their music was accompanied by a signature red-and-white aesthetic and a whimsical mythology that portrayed the duo as brother and sister. (They were in fact a formerly married couple.) Before they bowed out in 2011, the White Stripes served up six studio albums and hits such as 'Hotel Yorba,' 'Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,' 'We're Going to Be Friends' and the crowning 'Seven Nation Army," whose riff endures as a popular sports-stadium anthem around the globe. More: Revealing the White Stripes: The inside story of the early years More: Insane Clown Posse in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? You asked for it. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame also announced 2025 inductions in other categories, including musical influence (Salt-N-Pepa, Warren Zevon) and musical excellence (Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins, Carole Kaye). The Ahmet Ertegun Award, an industry executive honor, will go this year to Lenny Waronker, best known for his time with Warner Bros. Records. In the world of the White Stripes, Sunday's announcement presents immediate intrigue: What will be Meg White's involvement come November at L.A.'s Peacock Theater? Beyond occasional spottings around Detroit, the Grosse Pointe Woods-born drummer has been a reclusive figure since the band's 2011 split. Her last public performance came in 2009. So would she join Jack White for a White Stripes reunion set? Those aren't unprecedented questions at the RRHOF, where history is lined with drama involving original band members — including contentious situations among the likes of Kiss, Van Halen and Journey. There's no apparent animosity between Jack and Meg White — she regularly attends his Detroit solo concerts — so that wouldn't seem to factor in here. We can assume Jack White is up for some sort of live performance on Nov. 8: The southwest Detroit native has a way of rising to the prime-time spotlight, most recently last summer's hometown Michigan Central spectacular and February's 'Saturday Night Live' 50th anniversary concert, where he closed the show. The reemergence of Meg White for the first White Stripes performance in 16 years would certainly make for a gripping, stop-the-presses moment. But given the duo's convictions when it comes to history, place and time, it wouldn't be shocking if they opted to leave the purity of their legacy as it is. This year's Rock & Roll of Fame induction was a second shot for the White Stripes: The band was originally nominated in 2023 during their first year of eligibility, which kicks in 25 years after an artist's first commercial release. (In the White Stripes' case, that was the 1998 single 'Let's Shake Hands'). And this might not be Jack White's only opportunity for RRHOF glory: Along with his various other band projects, he will eventually will become eligible for induction as a solo artist, presumably in 2029. Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@ Aretha Franklin — 1987 Marvin Gaye — 1987 Smokey Robinson — 1987 Jackie Wilson — 1987 The Supremes — 1988 The Temptations — 1989 Stevie Wonder — 1989 Hank Ballard — 1990 Four Tops — 1990 John Lee Hooker — 1991 Martha and the Vandellas — 1995 Gladys Knight & the Pips — 1996 Little Willie John — 1996 Parliament-Funkadelic — 1997 Bob Seger — 2004 Madonna — 2008 The Stooges — 2010 Alice Cooper — 2011 The Miracles — 2012 Eminem — 2022 The Spinners — 2023 The White Stripes — 2025 This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: The White Stripes make R&R Hall of Fame, become 22nd Detroit inductee
