Colin Greenwood's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Colin Charles Greenwood (born 26 June 1969) is an English bassist and a member of the rock band Radiohead. The birth-card coordinate for June 26 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with Radiohead induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2019 Performers — inducted member of Radiohead

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Colin Greenwood's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). 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 Colin Greenwood. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

Live 4 of Clubs meaning page

Colin Greenwood in the public record

Along with bass guitar, Greenwood plays upright bass and electronic instruments. With his younger brother, the guitarist Jonny Greenwood, Colin attended Abingdon School in Abingdon, England, where they formed Radiohead. Radiohead have achieved acclaim and have sold more than 30 million albums. Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019. Greenwood has contributed to solo projects by the other members of Radiohead, and has collaborated with musicians including Tamino, Gaz Coombes, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. In 2024, he published a book of his photographs of Radiohead. Colin Greenwood is the older brother of the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. Their father served in the British Army as a bomb disposal expert.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Colin Greenwood (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 Colin Greenwood, 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.

As a teenager, Greenwood read historical works such as The Communist Manifesto and Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists and fiction by American writers including Richard Ford and John Cheever.

Paired on shared wording: including, works. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 4♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. The Greenwood family has historical ties to the British Communist Party and the socialist Fabian Society.
2. Greenwood and his family lived in Germany during his youth.
3. As a teenager, Greenwood read historical works such as The Communist Manifesto and Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists and fiction by American writers including Richard Ford and John Cheever.
4. He enjoyed films by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Other inductees with this card

• Ben Shepherd — 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
• Chris Layton — 2015 Performers with Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Chuck Berry — 1986 Performers
• Cliff Williams — 2003 Performers with AC/DC
• Donna Jean Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• GZA — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
• Garry Shider — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Gladys Knight — 1996 Performers with Gladys Knight & the Pips
• John Fogerty — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Johnny Moore — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Laura Nyro — 2012 Performers
• Mick Jones — 2003 Performers with The Clash
• 1 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Colin Greenwood's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. June 26 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 Colin Greenwood's dates come from?

Birth date 1969-06-26 is the day-precision date on Colin Greenwood'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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