Jack White achieves world’s fastest released record on Record Store Day


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Jack White achieved his aim of producing the world’s fastest released record during last weekend’s Record Store Day celebrations, as a special ‘Lazaretto‘ single found its way on to the Third Man shelves just a shade under four hours after it had been performed live in the studio’s Blue Room.

“I woke up at about 4 in the morning last night, and I thought, ‘Wow. I think there’s about 12 or 13 things that could really go wrong tomorrow’,” he later told a press conference.

“I just thought how difficult it would be to explain to people if we didn’t pull it off, so thank God we did. When you just go gangbusters and attack something, it just seems to work out. All the molecules line up or something.”

As well as ‘Lazaretto’, the short gig also included ‘The Power Of My Love‘, ‘Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground‘, ‘Freedom At 21‘, ‘Three Women‘, ‘Weep Themselves To Sleep‘, ‘Love Interruption‘, ‘Ball and Biscuit‘, ‘Just One Drink‘, ‘Hotel Yorba‘ and ‘Would You Fight For My Love‘, after which the masters were swiftly carted away to the nearby United Record Pressing plant in Nashville before returning to Third Man base and hundreds of fans who had queued overnight to both witness the gig and get their hands on a small piece of musical history.

Listen to Lazaretto at 7’20” in the video below:


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