Jack White Expecting Baby

White Stripes frontman Jack White, 30, and wife, British supermodel Karen Elson, 26, are expecting their first child, due in the spring. This will be the first child for both, who were wed last June in the Brazilian city of Manuas, by a Shaman priest in a canoe at the spot where three rivers -- the Rio Negro, the Solimones and the Amazon -- meet. Stripes drummer Meg White served as maid of honor and the Stripes' manager as best man. The Shaman ceremony was followed by a blessing at a local Catholic cathedral.

The White Stripes scored their highest opening yet at Number Three with the release of their fifth album, Get Behind Me Satan, last June. The duo will kick off a brief tour of Japan and Australia in January.

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Song Stories

“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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