The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is

On September 23, 1997, John married Megan Martha White and took her last name. Jack wanted his then-wife Meg to take up the drums which formed The White Stripes. The White Stripes was John Gillis and Megan White (she had played violin for a short time).Detroit minimalist rock duo (specifically, southwest Detroit minimalist rock duo) the White Stripes -- Jack White, guitar and vocals, Meg White, drums -- formed in 1997 (Bastille Day, to be precise) with the idea of making simple rock & roll music.The White Stripes are grounded in punk and blues, but the undercurrent to all of their work has been the aforementioned striving for simplicity, a love of American folk music, and a careful approach to intriguing, emotional, and evocative lyrics not found anywhere else in the modern punk, or garage rock (or amongst postmodern "blues" practitioners such as Jon Spencer, for that matter).