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“It was just a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna have a chorus in this song. See if I can get away with it’”: How Jack White created the guitar riff of the century – and what is a Seven Nation Army, anyway?

Friday January 2, 2026. 07:48 AM , from Keyboard Magazine

'It's the kind of riff you figure out when you're learning how to play guitar'

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