Today, December tenth, is Meg White‘s fiftieth birthday, and Jack White took to Instagram to want his ex-wife and The White Stripes bandmate properly.
“HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY to my large sister, the good Meg White,” Jack White wrote. “There’s solely certainly one of you Meggo, they broke the mildew. You’re nonetheless inspiring folks, together with me. Love you a lot. -Jack III” See the put up under.
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Jack and Meg formally disbanded The White Stripes in 2011, parting methods amicably to “protect what is gorgeous and particular in regards to the band” and guarantee its legacy remained untarnished. Jack has since launched six solo albums, together with this 12 months’s No Name. Hearkening again to a few of The White Stripes’ earlier sounds, No Name’s rambunctious, impressed sound led us to proclaim Jack White as Consequence’s Artist of the Year.
Since The White Stripes disbanded, Meg has stayed fully out of the highlight, declining interview requests and avoiding public appearances. Earlier this 12 months, we ranked her among the many 100 biggest drummers of all time. “The truth is, Meg White’s minimalistic fashion was the right counter to Jack’s shredding, a primal dynamic that gave their tunes that definitive storage stomp. Jack offered the flash, Meg offered the texture,” wrote Consequence Editorial Director Ben Kaye.
Both Meg and Jack did, nevertheless, regroup earlier this 12 months to sue Donald Trump over the “flagrant misappropriation” of their tune “Seven Nation Army” in a marketing campaign advert, although they withdrew the lawsuit final month.
