“I didn’t care about the guitar. I wanted to be a drummer my whole life. That was all I cared about”: Jack White tells Oxford Union he didn’t care about the guitar but needed to play it to achieve "validity"

Jack White of The Dead Weather performs, playing drums, on day seven of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 2, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jack White has spoken to the Oxford University Union – not an honour that’s extended to just any old garage rock guitarist – and talked about the “simplicity” of the White Stripes that was secret to the band taking off in the way they did.

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