Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Boz Burrell's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
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
Raymond "Boz" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician. The birth-card coordinate for August 1 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Performers with Bad Company induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2025 Performers — inducted member of Bad Company
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Boz Burrell's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Boz Burrell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
Boz Burrell in the public record
Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for being the vocalist and bassist of King Crimson from 1971 to 1972 and the original bassist of Bad Company from 1973 to their first disbandment in 1982 and once more from 1998 to 1999. He died of a heart attack in Spain in 2006, aged 60. Raymond Burrell was born on 1 August 1946 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire; he lived in Saracens Head and Holbeach Hurn. As a teen in the 1950s, he began playing rhythm guitar for the Tea Time 4, a group formed with his school pals Bernie Rudd and Brian Rocky Browne, at the George Farmer School. They both acquired a passion for jazz and enjoyed acts such as Mose Allison, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus. He later attended King's Lynn Technical College. The group had several personnel changes and moved to London in 1965 at the suggestion of manager, Jack Barrie. With the addition of Ian McLagan on keyboard and a name change to Boz People, the group secured a contract with EMI's Columbia label.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Boz Burrell (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Boz Burrell, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Boz Burrell's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, Q♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Natural ability to provide and nurture materially
Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for being the vocalist and bassist of King Crimson from 1971 to 1972 and the original bassist of Bad Company from 1973 to their first disbandment in 1982 and once more from 1998 to 1999.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company.
Also on the record
- Burrell's style leaned more towards jazz, whereas McLagan was into Booker T, four singles being recorded and backing band slots with Kenny Lynch and Elkie Brooks.
- However, with little commercial success, McLagan soon left to join The Small Faces.
- Burrell next enjoyed a short stint in the soul band, Feel For Soul, back in Norwich from 1966 until the following year.
- In late 1965, Burrell was briefly considered to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who.
Other inductees with this card
- Bill Kreutzmann — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- Carl Perkins — 1987 Performers
- Chuck D — 2013 Performers with Public Enemy
- Ed Gagliardi — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
- Freddie Stone — 1993 Performers with Sly and the Family Stone
- Jerry Garcia — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- Joe Elliott — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- Nicko McBrain — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Peter Gabriel — 2010 Performers with Genesis; 2014 Performers
- Peter Hook — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Professor Griff — 2013 Performers with Public Enemy
- Rami Jaffee — 2021 Performers with Foo Fighters
- 2 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Boz Burrell's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. August 1 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 Boz Burrell's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-08-01 is the day-precision date on Boz Burrell'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, Boz Burrell) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2041904). Birth date 1946-08-01 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).