Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Alan White's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds
The Success Communicator
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Alan White (14 June 1949 – 26 May 2022) was an English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes. The birth-card coordinate for June 14 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2017 Performers with Yes induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2017 Performers — inducted member of Yes
The 3 of Diamonds coordinate
Alan White's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Alan White. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.
Alan White in the public record
He joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Bruford. He was the longest-serving member of the band, and one of just two members (with founding bassist Chris Squire) whose tenure ceased only with his death. In 1969, White joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band after Lennon invited him to play at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, followed by a show at the Lyceum Ballroom. He played drums on the singles "Instant Karma!" and "Imagine", as well as most of Lennon's 1971 Imagine album. In addition to his work with Yes and John Lennon, White also released a solo album, Ramshackled (1976), and performed on over 50 albums by other musicians, including George Harrison, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Terry Reid, Joe Cocker and The Ventures. His thunderous playing was directly sampled as the drum basis of the hit Art of Noise singles "Beat Box" and "Close (to the Edit)". White was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alan White (Yes drummer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Alan White's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♦ — Birth Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 3♦, Q♦, 6♥, A♠, 2♣, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Bobby Hatfield — 2003 Performers with The Righteous Brothers
- Boyd Tinsley — 2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band
- Christine McVie — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- James Honeyman-Scott — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Janet Jackson — 2019 Performers
- Krist Novoselic — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Nate Mendel — 2021 Performers with Foo Fighters
- Neil Diamond — 2011 Performers
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson — 1990 Performers with The Four Tops
- Rick Savage — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- Rod Argent — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
- Ron McKernan — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Alan White's birth card?
- The 3 of Diamonds. June 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- 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, character, or fate.
- Where do Alan White's dates come from?
- Birth date 1949-06-14 is the day-precision date on Alan White's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Alan White (Yes drummer)) + Wikidata CC0 (Q355669). Birth date 1949-06-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).