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Jack White
John Anthony White is an American musician who was the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo the White Stripes. He was a key artist of the 2000s indie and garage rock movements, noted for his distinctive musical techniques, eccentricity, and utilization of analog technology. After the White Stripes split up in 2011, he found success with his solo career and business ventures.
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entertainment · American musician (born 1975) · guitarist · singer · composer · mandolinist · drummer · pianist · singer-songwriter · record producer · recording artist · voice actor · also Jack White, Jack III White, John Anthony White né Gillis, Tall Poppy Red, Blind Jack Lazarus, John S. O'Leary
Born 9 July 1975 · Q272031
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2026· 34 entries
“You just find out how to tell that story. You know how it is when you lose something, and you try your best to hold on to it, but no matter what tricks you come up with, it”
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“When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established.”
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That Eric Alper: Jack White Takes His New Songs Into A Huge Fall North American Run
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JamBase: Jack White Setlists 2023
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Alternative Nation: Jack White Issues Official Response to Country Star Over Satanic Band Feud
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TicketNews: Jack White Unveils 2026 North American Headlining Tour Dates
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TicketNews: Jack White tickets on sale in Chicago at The Salt Shed
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TicketNews: Jack White Joins Coachella Lineup Last-Minute
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Texas Monthly: Charley Crockett Is at War With Jack White (and Satan). Thank God for That.
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Yahoo: Jack White drops diss track in feud with Austin country singer Charley Crockett
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The Guardian: Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White
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Karlobag.eu: Jack White in Istanbul: tickets for Bonus Parkorman concert with Frozen Charlotte and a powerful live rock set
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Karlobag.eu: Jack White en Estambul: entradas para el concierto en Bonus Parkorman con Frozen Charlotte y potente rock en directo
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Karlobag.eu: Jack White en Bristol: entradas para el concierto en The Prospect Building con blues rock crudo y nuevo álbum
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Hoodline: Charley Crockett, Jack White Feud Over Twin Temple Ouster
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TicketNews: Jack White tickets on sale in Indianapolis at Everwise Amphitheater
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Wide Open Country: Jack White Fires Back at This Country Star After He Dissed Him
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D Magazine: Charley Crockett and Jack White are in a fight over Twin Temple
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Fashion Times UK: Jack White Hits Back After Charley Crockett Slams His Decision To Let a 'Satanic' Band Open His LA Show
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MusicRadar: “Lemme guess, you got Che Guevara and Malcolm X on your shelf, maybe even Fred Hampton, but at the end of the day you get in the Lamborghini and put your kids in private school”: Charlie Crokett gets personal in playground tussle with Jack White
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Far Out Magazine: Charley Crockett escalates Jack White feud: “If you want the smoke, I’m your man”
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DRGNews: Jack White Fires Back After Charley Crockett Diss
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Countrytown: As Charley Crockett Continues His Feud With Jack White, Twin Temple Reap The Benefits
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Gritaradio.com: JACK WHITE responde a las «acusaciones» de CHARLEY CROCKETT
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Karlobag.eu: Jack White en Londres - rock de guitarra en Eventim Apollo, gira actual y entradas para el concierto
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Rolling Stone: Charley Crockett Takes Aim at Jack White, Again
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Released album “Frozen Charlotte”.
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Public attention spiked: 22,261 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 3,124, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life For consistency with the previous wording
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Public attention spiked: 10,749 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 3,124, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs live on SNL”.
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Published video “"Derecho Demonico" live on Saturday Night Live”.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “A video shows musician Jack White denouncing Trump supporters” AI-generated.
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White opened his first public art exhibition, "These Thoughts May Disappear", which will run from May to September 2026
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2025· 12 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Rock musician Jack White responded to the White House's criticism of him with a statement calling the administration "petty and pathetic and thin skinned."” True.
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Published video “Jack White – Archbishop Harold Holmes (Official Video)”.
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Released album “2025-05-15: The Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, USA”.
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Released album “2025-04-04: Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO, USA”.
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Published video “Jack White - That’s How I’m Feeling - Live at Bluebird Theater, October 8, 2024”.
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Published video “Jack White - Archbishop Harold Holmes - Live at The Earl, July 29, 2024”.
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Published video “Jack White - Old Scratch Blues - Live at Odeon Theatre, December 11, 2024”.
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Published video “Jack White - Rough on Rats (If You’re Asking) - Live at Trees, November 13, 2024”.
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Published video “Jack White - Morning at Midnight - Live at Toad’s Place, September 10, 2024”.
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Released album “2025-02-18: Roadrunner, Boston, MA”.
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Released ep “No Name Live”.
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And Meg White were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2024· 14 entries
Published video “Jack White - You Got Me Searching (Official Audio)”.
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White announced the second leg of the tour, consisting of 52 higher-ticketed shows in another eight countries, from November 17, 2024, to May 24, 2025
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Published video “Jack White - That's How I'm Feeling (Official Video)”.
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Released album “2024-08-29: Mr. Smalls Theatre Millvale, PA, USA”.
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Published video “Jack White - Old Scratch Blues (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - It's Rough On Rats (If You're Asking) (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - Terminal Archenemy Endling (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - Morning At Midnight (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - Underground (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - Bless Yourself (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - That's How I'm Feeling (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jack White - Tonight (Was A Long Time Ago) (Official Audio)”.
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Released album “No Name”.
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White distributed test pressings of his upcoming sixth solo studio album by secretly including copies of it with purchases made at Third Man Records locations
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2022· 19 entries
Released album “Artpark Mainstage Lewiston, NY, 08-21-2022”.
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Released album “2022-08-20: The Whiting, Flint, MI, USA”.
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Released album “Entering Heaven Alive”.
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Released album “Live at Carcassonne, France (2022/07/12)”.
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Released album “The Supply Chain Issues Tour: El Paso - El Paso County Coliseum May 27, 2022”.
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Released album “2022-04-17: Agganis Arena, Boston, MA, USA”.
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Released album “2022-04-14: Petersen Events Center Pittsburgh, PA, USA”.
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Released album “2022/04/13 Cincinnati, OH”.
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Released album “2022-04-10: Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids, MI, USA”.
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In Detroit, Michigan – during which White proposed to his girlfriend Olivia Jean, with the two marrying onstage – and ended on February 24, 2023, in Aspen, Colorado
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Released album “2022-04-08: Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI, USA”.
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Released album “Fear of the Dawn”.
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"Hi-De-Ho" on March 3, and "What's the Trick
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“So you gave Trump his Twitter platform back. Absolutely disgusting, Elon. That is officially an asshole move”
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They married in 2022, live at a concert where White proposed to Jean; she filed for divorce in 2026.
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Released album “The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, May, 23 2022”.
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Released album “May 29, 2022 - The Chelsea, Las Vegas, NV”.
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Live at a concert where White proposed to Jean; she filed for divorce in 2026
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Released album “Selections From the Supply Chain Issues Tour”.
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Garden Bowl Lounge, Detroit, MI, June 3 2001”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A military band was playing Hit The Road Jack outside the White House to give President Trump a send off” Audio Changed.
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“s traditional rock sound, on April 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, a folk album, on July 22. White released a video for”
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2020· 1 entry
White completed his Three-Wheel-Motion Low Rider - which is a highly customized Fender Telecaster B-Bender guitar
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2019· 4 entries
Released album “Live at Cass Tech, Detroit, MI 10·27·19”.
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Released album “Live at Third Man Records 04/19/2014”.
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Wayne State University of Detroit, Michigan awarded White with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree "for his dedication to Detroit and significant contributions to the arts as one of the most prolific and renowned
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“Sanders is telling the truth, and I really do trust him”
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2018· 4 entries
Released ep “Kneeling at The Anthem D.C.”.
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White donated $30,000 to The Outsiders House Museum for its preservation and restoration
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Released album “Live at Third Man Records ||| Nashville & Cass Corridor”.
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Released album “Boarding House Reach”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released a four-minute video titled "Servings and Portions from my Boarding House Reach", which featured short sound bites of new music interspersed with white noise
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White was the honoree of the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy during the annual Grammy Week celebration for his commitment "to working diligently to ensure that the quality and integrity of recorded
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2016· 4 entries
In support of his compilation album Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016
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Released album “Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016”.
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Released album “Acoustic Tour 2015”.
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Appeared as a special guest on the season one finale of The Muppets, and sang "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", which he later released on 7-inch vinyl
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for Lazaretto (2015).
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White announced that the festival would be his last electric set, followed by one acoustic show in each of the five U
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In its edition of March 6, 2015, Billboard magazine announced the buyer had been White.
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2014· 10 entries
Released album “Live From Bonnaroo 2014”.
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At the Detroit Masonic Temple, and later performed as one of the headliners at the Coachella Festival over two weekends in April 2015
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Released album “Live at the Masonic Temple”.
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Simultaneously with the first single off the album, "High Ball Stepper"
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Released album “Lazaretto”.
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White announced his second solo album, Lazaretto, inspired by plays and poetry he had written as a teen
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Released album “2014‐06‐12: Live at Fox Theatre, Pomona, CA, US”.
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Released album “2014‐06‐10: Live at the Fonda, Hollywood, CA, US”.
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The pedal was reviewed by Premier Guitar, and is found in Jack's pedal setup
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Though at the time Benson believed that they were split
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2013· 2 entries
Third Man Records diversified and launched the Bumble Buzz pedal, an octave fuzz built for Third Man by Vancouver, British Columbia's Union Tube and Transistor
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After it was revealed that owners owed $142,000 in back taxes
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Live at Third Man Records”.
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Released ep “iTunes Festival: London 2012”.
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Released album “iTunes Festival - London, UK”.
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Released album “Blunderbuss”.
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White released "Love Interruption" as the first single off his debut, self-produced solo album, Blunderbuss, which was released on April 24, 2012
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2011· 1 entry
Found success with his solo career and business ventures
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2010· 1 entry
White employed a new drum head, upon the release of Sea of Cowards, which has an image of The Third Man himself: Harry Lime attempting to escape certain capture in the sewers of Vienna
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2009· 6 entries
In Europe and July 14, 2009, in North America on White's Third Man Records label
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In Nashville from their debut album Horehound
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(and during the final episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien), the band made their first live appearance after the cancellation of the Icky Thump tour, and a documentary about their Canadian tour—titled The White Strip
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White met American musician Olivia Jean at a Dead Weather concert
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Jack White was featured in It Might Get Loud, a film in which he, Jimmy Page, and the Edge come together to discuss the electric guitar and each artist's different playing methods
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White donated almost $170,000 towards the renovation of the baseball diamond in southwest Detroit's Clark Park
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2008· 2 entries
White collaborated with Alicia Keys on the song "Another Way to Die", the theme song for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace
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For their second album, Consolers of the Lonely
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2007· 1 entry
While on tour in Texas—the same one he used in the music video for "Icky Thump"—which ultimately fit in with the Dead Weather's color scheme
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2005· 3 entries
For the single "Blue Orchid", White employed an Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG), which let him mix in several octave effects into one along with the dry signal
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On 60 Minutes, he told Mike Wallace that his life could have turned out differently
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While collaborating with Brendan Benson—a fellow Michigan native whom White had worked with before—they composed a song called "Steady, as She Goes"
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2003· 4 entries
By the commercially and critically successful Elephant
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White was in a relationship with actress Renée Zellweger, after they met during the filming of Cold Mountain
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White played guitar and performed backing vocals on the title track of British musician, DJ and producer Mark Ronson's debut album Here Comes the Fuzz featuring Freeway and Nikka Costa on vocals
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That White had collaborated with Electric Six for their song "Danger
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2002· 1 entry
The Detroit Free Press produced copies of both a marriage license and divorce certificate for him and Meg, confirming their history as a married couple
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2001· 3 entries
The band released White Blood Cells
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With Ben Swank, formerly of the Ohio-based Soledad Brothers band
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The same year that the White Stripes earned international fame with their breakthrough album White Blood Cells
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1999· 1 entry
And a year later the album was followed up by the cult classic De Stijl
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1998· 1 entry
The White Stripes were signed to Italy Records—a small and independent Detroit-based garage punk label—by Dave Buick
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1997· 2 entries
(also known as Bastille Day, which White recounted), Jack and Meg performed their first show at the Gold Dollar in Detroit; of the three songs on the setlist, one of them was "Jimmy the Exploder", which would be the intr
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And according to Jack, "When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, it felt liberating and refreshing
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1987· 1 entry
Gillis met Pope John Paul II when he visited Detroit and received a blessing
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1975· 1 entry
Born 1975-07-09.
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