Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Glen Matlock's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted 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
Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician and the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The birth-card coordinate for August 27 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2006 Performers — inducted member of Sex Pistols
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
Glen Matlock's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted 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 Glen Matlock. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
Glen Matlock in the public record
He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only officially released studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band early in the recording process, he played bass on one song on the album, "Anarchy in the U.K." However, on the bootleg album Spunk, Matlock played bass on all the songs, which included earlier studio recordings of 10 of the 12 songs that later appeared on the Bollocks album. Since leaving the Sex Pistols in 1977, he has performed with several other bands, including Rich Kids, who scored a UK No. 24 hit with the single "Rich Kids" in 1978, as well as presenting his own work. After the death of his replacement in the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Matlock has resumed bass guitar duties for subsequent Sex Pistols reunions, including the 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour, the 2002 concert to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, their 2003 North American Piss Off Tour, their 2007–08 UK and Europe Combine Harvester Tour and their current incarnation with Frank Carter guesting on vocals.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Glen Matlock (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Spades
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 Glen Matlock, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Glen Matlock's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard. Your mind is oriented toward finding what's real beneath appearances. You question everything. You're the one willing to challenge comfortable lies for uncomfortable truths.
He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only officially released studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band early in the recording process, he played bass on one song on the album, "Anarchy in the U.K." However, on the bootleg album Spunk, Matlock played bass on all the songs, which included earlier studio recordings of 10 of the 12 songs that later appeared on the Bollocks album.
Paired on shared wording: early, mind. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 10♣'s Life Spread.
Other inductees with this card
- Alex Lifeson — 2013 Performers with Rush
- Edward Patten — 1996 Performers with Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Geddy Lee — 2013 Performers with Rush
- Maurice White — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Paul Denman — 2026 Performers with Sade
- Robert Trujillo — 2009 Performers with Metallica
- Zal Yanovsky — 2000 Performers with The Lovin' Spoonful
FAQ
- What is Glen Matlock's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. August 27 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 Glen Matlock's dates come from?
- Birth date 1956-08-27 is the day-precision date on Glen Matlock'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, Glen Matlock) + Wikidata CC0 (Q51319). Birth date 1956-08-27 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).