Jack White Injured in Crash

Jack White was involved in an automobile accident in his hometown of Detroit on July 9th and suffered a compound fracture of his left index finger. As a result of the crash, the White Stripes will have to pull out of two headlining gigs at the T in the Park Festival in Scotland and the Witness Festival in Ireland. The Flaming Lips will fill in for the Stripes at both events.

The White Stripes were scheduled to launch a twenty-six-date U.S. tour in support of this year's Elephant on July 19th in Providence, Rhode Island. The string of dates, which includes a brief break in August for the Reading and Leeds Festival in the U.K., is currently scheduled to run through September 25th, followed by a tour of Japan in late October. There is no word yet as to whether the injury will affect the tour, according to a source at V2 Records, the band's label.

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Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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