“I thank you and all of Detroit,” said White, name-checking a mélange of city favorites such as Gold Dollar, the Gories, the Dirt Bombs, the Hentchmen, Coney Islands and the Detroit Zoo. He posted his notes atop the list of honorees on his Facebook account during the ceremony.

Jack White’s thank-you speech at the White Stripes’ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday doubled as a love letter to Detroit — and his absent “sister” Meg White.

“The White Stripes are proud to represent the sound of Detroit punk and garage rock, and the garage rock movement that caught folks’ imagination around the world a few years back,” he said at the ceremony.

In the late 1990s, Jack, a fiery guitarist who loved blues and punk, and Meg, a minimalist drummer, formed the White Stripes. Jack,

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