Clem Burke's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts

In the record

Clement Anthony Burke (né Bozewski; November 24, 1954 – April 6, 2025) was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie. The birth-card coordinate for November 24 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Blondie induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2006 Performers — inducted member of Blondie

The 9 of Hearts coordinate

Clem Burke's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 Clem Burke. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.

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Clem Burke in the public record

He joined the band shortly after its formation in 1975 and remained with Blondie throughout the band's entire career until his death in 2025. He appeared on all of the band's albums with two of the founding members, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. He was drummer for the Ramones for a brief time in 1987 under the name Elvis Ramone, and played on albums by other artists, including Eurythmics, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. He was a member of the Romantics from 1990 until 2004. Clement Anthony Bozewski was born on November 24, 1954, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Clement J. Bozewski and Antoinette (née Terraciano). His father, a drummer who played in local clubs, taught him to drum from an early age and he played in a school marching band. His early experiences on the drum kit began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing in various New Jersey jam bands.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Hearts

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 Clem Burke, and not a forecast of induction.

You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

He was a key figure in keeping the group together when Stein and Harry considered disbanding after their original bassist, Fred Smith, departed to Television.

Paired on shared wording: group, keeping.

Also on the record

1. Burke also gained percussion knowledge from his stint as a drummer in the St Andrew's Bridgemen Drum and Bugle Corps in Bayonne.
2. He was recruited by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein when Blondie was first forming in 1974 and joined the band in early 1975.
3. He was a key figure in keeping the group together when Stein and Harry considered disbanding after their original bassist, Fred Smith, departed to Television.
4. Burke recruited his friend Gary Valentine to play bass.

Other inductees with this card

• Ben E. King — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Bob Burns — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Bootsy Collins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Donald "Duck" Dunn — 1992 Performers with Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• John Phillips — 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas
• Maurice Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
• Rick Nielsen — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
• Robin Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees

FAQ

What is Clem Burke's birth card?

The 9 of Hearts. November 24 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 Clem Burke's dates come from?

Birth date 1954-11-24 is the day-precision date on Clem Burke'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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