CLEVELAND, Ohio — Minimalism never sounded so maximal. Inducted by fellow Detroiter Iggy Pop, The White Stripes embodied the 21st-century rock and roll myth — an Adam and Eve in peppermint stripes who built a wall of sound out of two people and a mountain of distortion.

When Jack and Meg White hit the scene at the turn of the millennium, they were a riddle wrapped in feedback.

Were they siblings? Spouses? Just bandmates? None of it mattered once the first chord landed.

Their stripped-down blues-punk — equal parts Delta tradition and Detroit grit — felt both ancient and brand new, like something primal reborn through a red-and-white megaphone.

Young artists should “drop the screens, get obsessed, get your hands dirty,” as Jack White said in his acceptance speech Saturday night.

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