She gained bona fide fame as a member of The Supremes in 1967 when she replaced co-founding member Florence Ballard. Fans are waiting with anticipation to see if she will show up at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony.Ĭindy Birdsong’s voice was just like her surname and when she started out as a member of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebells, ears perked up. We do know that she’s been married and divorced (Jackson Smith, Patti Smith’s son), but that’s about it-said to suffer “from acute anxiety,” the self-proclaimed “hermit” is not on social media, and has not been photographed by paparazzi in several years. So, it’s no surprise that upon the dissolution of the White Stripes around 2010, the drummer disappeared from the public eye. While being interviewed, Meg would often look down and mumble out short replies. Even at the height of the band’s notoriety in the 1990s and early 2000s, Meg was always the shy, quiet one-especially in contrast to her then-husband, the loquacious Jack White (who, incidentally, took his spouse’s last name upon completion of the “I do’s”-the marriage didn’t last but he kept the tag). White Stripes drummer and co-founder Meg White has been in the news recently because the garage duo that emerged from humble beginnings out of Detroit has been nominated for induction into the prestigious Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. While “rock star” seems like a dream job-sleeping in late and drinking on company time while being worshipped by the masses and raking in scads of cash-a few who’ve achieved success have turned their backs on their hard-earned status for normal lives and day jobs. Mötley Crüe found Mick Mars in 1981 thanks to an ad the axe-man placed in the Los Angeles Recycler: “Loud, rude, and aggressive guitar player available.” In 1972, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Peter Criss of KISS hired Ace Frehley through this want-ad in the Village Voice: “LEAD GUITARIST WANTED with Flash and Ability.
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