Among the highlights, footage from the duo’s first ever TV perofrmance in May of 2000, when they played “Apple Blossom” on Detroit Public Television’s Backstage Pass.
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By clicking on the album located front and center at jackwhiteiii.com, visitors can explore White’s musical history beginning with “Sugar Never Tasted So Good” on October 23, 1998 and ending with “City Lights” on August 11, 2016. The track was originally written for “Get Behind Me Satan”, but then forgotten until White revisited the 2005 album for Third Man’s Record Store Day 2015 vinyl reissue and finished the recording in 2016.
Featuring behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, handwritten lyrics and other collectibles, commentary and rare live performances, the interactive timeline offers insights into each of the 26 tracks that make up the collection.
“White has often claimed he would happily license the song to an advertisement for Nutrisweet or Splenda”, the timeline informs fans – to White’s version of the White Stripes’ “City Lights” that he completed in 2016.
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Elsewhere on the website, White confirms the long-rumored story that he was permanently banned from the actual Hotel Yorba while attempting to film the video for The White Stripes’ song of the same name.
