{"id":657477,"date":"2026-10-26T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657477\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:38:18","slug":"jack-white-mourns-brother-eddie-gillis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657477\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Mourns Brother Eddie Gillis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJack White<\/a> is mourning the death of his older brother, Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gillis, who managed Third Man Records\u2019 Detroit vinyl pressing plant.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite shared the news in an Instagram<\/a> post on Saturday (Oct. 24), writing that Gillis had died that morning \u201cafter having fought a tough battle against cancer.\u201d \u201cThe world lost a beautiful soul today,\u201d White wrote. \u201cEd was such a caring, funny and generous person that everybody loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGillis ran Third Man Pressing for 10 years, overseeing the production of \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of records for other artists, White wrote, adding that his brother liked to make small sculptures and flowers from the plant\u2019s vinyl scraps. The facility opened in 2017 in Detroit\u2019s Cass Corridor as part of White\u2019s Third Man Records operation, making White one of the few artists to own his own pressing plant. Before that, Gillis worked as a pastry chef, running kitchens and bake shops for the Ritz-Carlton and Beaumont Hospital.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhite, the youngest of 10 siblings, also credited Gillis with shaping his musical start. \u201cIn his youth Eddie was the guitar player in the family when we were all growing up back when I was on drums only, and he was just great at the instrument,\u201d he wrote, recalling that the two played together over the years, once for the Detroit Tigers during spring training in Florida. \u201cHe taught me so many wonderful and simple things over the years that I\u2019ll never forget; how to string a guitar, how to fish on the Detroit river, how to drive a stick shift,\u201d White added. \u201cHe was an amazing big brother to me and I just hate to see him leave, but I\u2019m glad he is at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGillis is survived by his wife, Angie, and their two children, Amelia and Garrett.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite rose to fame as one half of the White Stripes, whose \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d topped Billboard\u2019s Alternative Airplay chart. As a solo artist, he has sent three albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Blunderbuss (2012), Lazaretto (2014) and Boarding House Reach (2018). Lazaretto also set the record for the biggest vinyl sales week since 1991, a mark it held until 2021.<\/p>\n