Simon Phillips's Birth Card: The 6 of Spades

In the record

Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz fusion and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer, based in the United States. The birth-card coordinate for February 6 is the 6 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Simon Phillips's 1983 Album of the Year — Toto IV.

Album of the Year record

• 1983 Album of the Year — Toto IV (Toto)

Simon Phillips is on the 1983 Album of the Year list for Toto IV, billed as Toto at ceremony 25 (https://www.grammy.com/awards/categories/album-of-the-year/1983/). Simon Phillips (Q366819, Wikipedia “Simon Phillips (drummer)”) appears here as billed with Toto. The billed act string on those wins is Toto. Albums in this pack for Simon Phillips: 1983 Toto IV. Birth date 1957-02-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Simon Phillips, verified against Wikidata P569 1957-02-06 (match). This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Simon Phillips. It only names the calendar coordinate for February 6 and the Album of the Year albums already listed for Simon Phillips.

The 6 of Spades coordinate

Simon Phillips was born February 6, 1957 (1957-02-06). Month 2 and day 6 give solar value 45, which is the 6 of Spades (The Responsible Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1957 is unused, so Simon Phillips's 1957 birth year does not move the card. The 6 of Spades does not predict a Grammy Album of the Year and is not a verdict on Simon Phillips. Quoted system copy for the 6 of Spades, not a biography of Simon Phillips: You use what you have already walked through without requiring anyone else to be in pain for it to count. You feel responsibility for helping others think clearly. You're the teacher, the counselor, the one people ask for perspective. Your mind is oriented toward truth and guidance.

Live 6 of Spades meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Simon Phillips is an English jazz fusion and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer, based in the United States. He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s, and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014.

Simon Phillips in the public record

He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s, and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014. Phillips worked as a session drummer for Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera's 801 , Jeff Beck, Big Country, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Nik Kershaw, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc, the Chemical Brothers, Pete Townshend, and the Who. He was the drummer for the Who during the band's American reunion tour in 1989. Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in a Dixieland band led by his father, Sid Phillips, for four years. After his father's death, he started playing pop and rock and found work in a production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He worked as a session musician for cast members, and this led to other session work. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked with Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend, and Frank Zappa; he was the drummer in the Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno supergroup 801 on their 1976 album 801 Live. Phillips replaced Judas Priest drummer Alan Moore to record on the band's Sin After Sin album (1977), and on that album, Phillips introduced the combination of the double bass drumming that would come to define heavy metal in later years, particularly the thrash metal sub-genre which emerged in the 1980s.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Simon Phillips (drummer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Simon Phillips, and not a forecast of a Grammy.

You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

The track "Dissident Aggressor" was an early example of the tempo and aggression which would soon become synonymous with the new wave of British heavy metal.

Paired on shared wording: become, early. This line comes from the Saturn position of the A♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. The track "Dissident Aggressor" was an early example of the tempo and aggression which would soon become synonymous with the new wave of British heavy metal.
2. Author Andrew L.
3. Cope has described Sin After Sin as a key album in the development of heavy metal technique, in particular for its use of double kick drumming.
4. Phillips played on guitarist Michael Schenker's 1980 debut album The Michael Schenker Group, as well as the solo album for Genesis bassist Mike Rutherford, Smallcreep's Day.

Other Album of the Year people with this card

• Natalie Cole — 1992 Album of the Year — Unforgettable... with Love

FAQ

What is Simon Phillips's birth card?

The 6 of Spades. February 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Simon Phillips's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Grammy Album of the Year?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, albums, character, or fate.

Where do Simon Phillips's dates and Album of the Year credits come from?

Birth date 1957-02-06 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Simon Phillips, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Album of the Year list, which cites Grammy.com / Recording Academy pages. Simon Phillips is billed with Toto. The Album of the Year line is 1983 Album of the Year — Toto IV. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Get the $9 Deep Dive

The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not a Grammy reading.

Get the $9 Deep Dive