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The White Stripes (Photo: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
It comes as little surprise that Detroit's White Stripes, comprised of Jack White and Meg White, has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The announcement Sunday night also included other inductees: Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, and Soundgarden.
The White Stripes made their live debut on August 14, 1997, at the Gold Dollar bar on Cass Avenue in Detroit. The band dissolved in 2011.
The hall of fame described the band this way:
The White Stripes reimagined minimalist garage and punk rock for a new generation and brought blues into the twenty-first century. The band stripped down rock & roll to its essentials and delivered the uninhibited freedom that only the best music can offer. They proved that a band could create massive, genre-defining sound with only two people, inspiring a wave of rock & roll revivalists and making a lasting mark on popular music.
Guitarist Jack White (born John Gillis) and drummer Meg White formed the White Stripes in Detroit in 1997. After releasing three blues-inspired albums on the independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry, the duo broke into the mainstream with a 2002 major label re-release of White Blood Cells. They promptly followed that album with their first proper major label debut, 2003’s Elephant. After two more albums – 2005’s piano-driven Get Behind Me Satan and their highest-charting Icky Thump (2007) – the band embarked on a Canadian tour, as featured in the acclaimed documentary Under Great White Northern Lights. The White Stripes performed for the last time on the final episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien before officially dissolving in 2011.
