Final night time, on the annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, the White Stripes had been inducted by Iggy Pop, with Jack White accepting the glory on behalf of the duo. (Meg White was not current, having left the music business and public eye after the band’s 2011 breakup.) Afterwards, Olivia Rodrigo, Feist, and Twenty One Pilots then carried out a medley of White Stripes classics of their honor. Watch a replay of these moments under.
After introducing the White Stripes as “a twenty first century Adam and Eve, who had began a rock & roll band,” Iggy Pop turned the microphone over to Jack White, who famous that his “sister” Meg White added “punctuation and corrections” to his speech. “I spoke with Meg White the opposite day; she stated she’s very sorry she couldn’t make it tonight, however she’s very grateful for the oldsters who’ve supported her all through all of the years, it actually means loads to her tonight,” he stated.
“To younger artists, I need to say, get your palms soiled and drop the screens and get out in your storage or your little room and get obsessed. Get obsessive about one thing, get passionate. All of us need to share in what you would possibly create,” continued White. “I actually have been in quite a lot of bands that you just’ve most likely by no means heard of. However for some motive, individuals particularly linked with this one two-piece duo undertaking that I used to be in referred to as the White Stripes. We don’t know why these items occur, however after they do, it’s essentially the most stunning factor you may have as an artist or musician when persons are responding and sharing with you.”
White additionally used the second to thank a protracted record of artists who impressed the White Stripes, none of whom are presently included within the Rock Corridor: The Gories; the Gun Membership; Loretta Lynn; Fugazi; the Misfits; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Love and Arthur Lee; the Flat Duo; Jets and Dexter Romweber; the Hentchmen; Dick Dale; Beck; Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow; Tampa Purple; the Sonics; Pavement; the Strokes; Black Flag; Sleater-Kinney; Loss of life; Jethro Tull; the Creation; the Breeders; the Cramps; Merle Haggard; the Hives; Them; the Damned; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; the Troggs; Minor Menace; the Rats; and Captain Beefheart.
Rodrigo and Feist opened the tribute with a sentimental duet of “We’re Going to Be Mates” on acoustic guitars, earlier than turning it over to Twenty One Pilots for the rock anthem-turned-sports stadium basic “Seven Nation Military,” fittingly performed by a fellow guitar-and-drums duo.
