Michael Dempsey's Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

In the record

Michael Stephen Dempsey (born 29 November 1958) is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the Cure and the Associates. The birth-card coordinate for November 29 is the 4 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with The Cure induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2019 Performers — inducted member of The Cure

The 4 of Hearts coordinate

Michael Dempsey's birthday maps to the 4 of Hearts (The Emotional Foundation 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 Michael Dempsey. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a home people can count on, and you leave enough air for feeling to move.

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Michael Dempsey in the public record

Dempsey was born on 29 November 1958 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Harare, Zimbabwe). His family later settled in Crawley, West Sussex, where he was a school friend of future bandmates Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst. Along with various classmates, the three first formed a band called the Obelisk in 1972, which eventually evolved into the Easy Cure and finally the Cure, the original lineup of which consisted of Dempsey on bass guitar, alongside Smith and Tolhurst. Upon the official formation of the Cure in 1978, Dempsey was the band's bassist starting with their first single "Killing an Arab" and then their debut album Three Imaginary Boys in 1979. Dempsey has the distinction of being the only member of the Cure other than Smith to perform lead vocals on a released track, doing so for their cover of the Jimi Hendrix song "Foxy Lady" on the 1979 album. During this period he contributed to the brief Cure side project Cult Hero. During sessions for the band's second album Seventeen Seconds, Dempsey criticized the shift in Smith's songwriting toward gloomy gothic rock. He left the Cure in November 1979 and was replaced by Simon Gallup.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Michael Dempsey, and not a forecast of induction.

Building reliable emotional foundations and trust

His family later settled in Crawley, West Sussex, where he was a school friend of future bandmates Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. He returned to the band briefly in 1986 to appear in a new video for the re-released 1979 song "Boys Don't Cry".
2. During his later days with the Cure, Dempsey had been filling in for the Associates on bass, and officially joined that band soon after leaving the Cure.
3. He was a member of the Associates until 1983, appearing on the albums Fourth Drawer Down and Sulk.
4. During this period he also served briefly as a session and touring bassist for Roxy Music.

Other inductees with this card

• Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz — 2012 Performers with Beastie Boys
• David Knopfler — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
• Denny Doherty — 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas
• Felix Cavaliere — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
• Mick Jones — 2024 Performers with Foreigner
• Mike Pinder — 2018 Performers with The Moody Blues

FAQ

What is Michael Dempsey's birth card?

The 4 of Hearts. November 29 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 Michael Dempsey's dates come from?

Birth date 1958-11-29 is the day-precision date on Michael Dempsey'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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