The White Stripes have been nominated for RockHall2023. In our 2005 cover story, we tried to solve the mystery of the White Stripes — and learned what 'Seven Nation Army' is really about.
is their third hit album in a row, following the 2001 breakthroughis also their boldest record, combining the Stripes’ whiplash rock and Jack’s passion for vintage blues and country music with a gothic-roadhouse tension scored with grand piano and marimba.
Born John Gillis in 1975, Jack actually started out as a drummer, at age five. But music was not his first career choice. In high school, Jack, a Catholic, seriously thought of entering the priesthood. After graduating, he considered joining the Marines but instead worked as an upholsterer and, for a time, as a gofer on TV carcommercial shoots.
Jack played drums and guitar in several Detroit garage bands before he and Meg, another Detroit native, made their local live debut in 1997. Jack soon found that underground cool came at a price. “We were everybody’s secret band,” he says. “Then our second album [] came out, and it was ‘Oh, they’re not that good anymore.’ When we hit the mainstream, I had to go through that game all over again, on a worldwide scale.
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