David Gilmour's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

David Jon Gilmour ( GHIL-mor; born 6 March 1946) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known for being the lead guitarist of the English rock band Pink Floyd. The birth-card coordinate for March 6 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1996 Performers — inducted member of Pink Floyd

The 4 of Spades coordinate

David Gilmour's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid 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 David Gilmour. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.

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David Gilmour in the public record

He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink Floyd had become one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history. Following the departure of Roger Waters in 1985, Pink Floyd continued under Gilmour's leadership and released the studio albums A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994) and The Endless River (2014). Gilmour has released five solo studio albums: David Gilmour (1978), About Face (1984), On an Island (2006), Rattle That Lock (2015) and Luck and Strange (2024). He has achieved three number-one solo albums on the UK Albums Chart, and six with Pink Floyd. He produced two albums by the Dream Academy, and is credited for bringing the singer-songwriter Kate Bush to public attention, paying for her early recordings and helping her find a record contract. As a member of Pink Floyd, Gilmour was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2003, Gilmour was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 4♠, 4♥, 10♣, 5♥, 5♣, 4♦, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 3♣, 3♠, 9♥, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠, J♣, 9♦, 7♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

1. He received the award for Outstanding Contribution at the 2008 Q Awards.
2. In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 28th-greatest guitarist of all time.
3. Gilmour has taken part in projects related to issues including animal rights, environmentalism, homelessness, poverty, and human rights.
4. He has married twice and is the father of eight children.

Other inductees with this card

• Aynsley Dunbar — 2017 Performers with Journey
• Berry Oakley — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• Donald Fagen — 2001 Performers with Steely Dan
• Hugh Grundy — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Lou Gramm — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
• Mary Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
• Muddy Waters — 1987 Performers
• Pat Benatar — 2022 Performers with Pat Benatar
• Pick Withers — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
• Rod Stewart — 1994 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Small Faces

FAQ

What is David Gilmour's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. March 6 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 David Gilmour's dates come from?

Birth date 1946-03-06 is the day-precision date on David Gilmour'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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