Hilton Valentine's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine (21 May 1943 – 29 January 2021) was an English skiffle and rock and roll musician who was the original guitarist in the Animals. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Performers with The Animals induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1994 Performers — inducted member of The Animals

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Hilton Valentine's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Hilton Valentine. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Hilton Valentine in the public record

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and into Hollywood’s Rock Walk of Fame in 2001 with the other members of the Animals. Following the Animals' breakup in 1966, Valentine produced several solo albums including All in Your Head (1969) and It’s Folk ‘N’ Skiffle, Mate! (2004). He also toured New England and participated in several reunions with the Animals. Valentine was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England, and was influenced by the 1950s skiffle craze. His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956 when he was 13, he taught himself some chords from a book called Teach Yourself a Thousand Chords. He continued to develop his musical talent at Tynemouth Municipal High School and formed his own skiffle group called the Heppers. They played local gigs and a newspaper described them at the time as, "A young but promising skiffle group". The Heppers eventually evolved into a rock and roll band, the Wildcats in c.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Hilton Valentine (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 J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♠, 9♦, 8♥, K♦, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 6♣, 6♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

1. 1959.
2. During this period Valentine played a Futurama III solid guitar, this was the UK brandname of importer Selmer, his next guitar was a Burns Vibra-Artiste which he bought in 1960–61.
3. The Wildcats were a popular band in the Tyneside area, getting a lot of bookings for dance halls, working men's clubs, church halls etc., and it was during this period that they decided to record a 10" acetate LP titled Sounds of the Wild Cats (sic).
4. In 1963, the Animals were starting to form and Chas Chandler heard about Hilton Valentine's wild guitar playing and asked him to join what was then the Alan Price Combo.

Other inductees with this card

• Adrian Smith — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
• Andrew Woolfolk — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
• Ann Wilson — 2013 Performers with Heart
• Aretha Franklin — 1987 Performers
• Bill Pinkney — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Billy Davenport — 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Bobby Byrd — 2012 Performers with The Famous Flames
• Daryl Hall — 2014 Performers with Hall & Oates
• Elton John — 1994 Performers
• Geezer Butler — 2006 Performers with Black Sabbath
• Gem Archer — 2026 Performers with Oasis
• Larry Dunn — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
• 13 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Hilton Valentine's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. May 21 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 Hilton Valentine's dates come from?

Birth date 1943-05-21 is the day-precision date on Hilton Valentine'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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