Allan Clarke's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Harold Allan Clarke (born 5 April 1942) is an English singer and musician who was one of the founding members and the original lead singer of The Hollies. The birth-card coordinate for April 5 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Performers with The Hollies induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2010 Performers — inducted member of The Hollies

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Allan Clarke's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Allan Clarke. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

Live 3 of Spades meaning page

Allan Clarke in the public record

He achieved international hit singles with the group and is credited as co-writer on several of their best-known songs, including "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne", "Jennifer Eccles" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". He retired from performing in 2000, but returned to the music industry in 2019. Clarke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the Hollies. Harold Allan Clarke and his childhood friend Graham Nash began singing together in Manchester while still at school. They formed The Hollies in December 1962 with Vic Steele (lead guitar) and Eric Haydock (bass guitar). In April 1963, they added Tony Hicks (replacing Steele on lead guitar) and Bobby Elliott (replacing Don Rathbone on drums). In 1966, Bernie Calvert replaced Haydock as bass guitarist. Clarke was The Hollies' original lead singer, but also played occasional guitar and harmonica.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Diamonds

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 Allan Clarke, and not a forecast of induction.

You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim. You naturally want to provide for others. Your resources flow toward helping and supporting. You're the one people come to when they need something.

Also, Clarke helped Nash's replacement, Terry Sylvester, develop as a songwriter, teaming with him to write a number of songs including "Gloria Swansong", "Look at Life" (1969), "I Wanna Shout", "Man Without a Heart" and "Perfect Lady Housewife" (1970).

Paired on shared wording: helped, without.

Also on the record

1. In the UK they enjoyed 30 chart singles, plus two further chart entries with re-releases, 17 of which made the Top 10, with two – "I'm Alive" (1965) and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (1988 re-issue) – reaching No.
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3. In the US charts they achieved 23 chart singles, six of which reached the Top 10.
4. Many of the group's songs were co-written by Clarke, usually with Nash and Hicks, until Nash's departure at the end of 1968.

Other inductees with this card

• Agnetha Fältskog — 2010 Performers with ABBA
• Alan Wilder — 2020 Performers with Depeche Mode
• Billy Williamson — 2012 Performers with The Comets
• Carole King — 2021 Performers
• Chris White — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas — 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang
• Ernie Isley — 1992 Performers with The Isley Brothers
• Frankie Valli — 1990 Performers with The Four Seasons
• James Brown — 1986 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Famous Flames
• Mary J. Blige — 2024 Performers
• Mike McCready — 2017 Performers with Pearl Jam
• Ronnie Wood — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones; 2012 Performers with The Small Faces
• 3 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Allan Clarke's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. April 5 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 Allan Clarke's dates come from?

Birth date 1942-04-05 is the day-precision date on Allan Clarke'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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