At the moment, 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 huge sister, the nice Meg White,” Jack White wrote. “There’s solely one in every of you Meggo, they broke the mould. You’re nonetheless inspiring folks, together with me. Love you a lot. -Jack III” See the put up beneath.
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Although Jack and Meg formally disbanded their mission The White Stripes again in 2011, their cut up was amicable and was an effort to “protect what is gorgeous and particular concerning the band and have it keep that means.” Jack has since launched six solo albums, together with this 12 months’s No Title; hearkening again to a few of The White Stripes’ earlier sounds, No Title’s rambunctious, impressed sound had us proclaiming Jack White as Consequence’s Artist of the 12 months.
In the meantime, since The White Stripes broke up, Meg has been a lot much less lively than her guitarist counterpart. She did, nevertheless, land on our checklist of the 100 best drummers of all time; of White, we wrote, “The actual fact is, Meg White’s minimalistic type was the right counter to Jack’s shredding, a primal dynamic that gave their tunes that definitive storage stomp. Jack supplied the flash, Meg supplied the texture.”
Each Meg and Jack not too long ago regrouped to sue Donald Trump over the “flagrant misappropriation” of their tune “Seven Nation Military” at his marketing campaign occasions, however withdrew the lawsuit final month.