Mick Jones's Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

In the record

Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader and only continuous original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner, though he no longer tours with the band as of 2023. The birth-card coordinate for December 27 is the 4 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Performers with Foreigner induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2024 Performers — inducted member of Foreigner

The 4 of Hearts coordinate

Mick Jones'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 Mick Jones. 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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Mick Jones in the public record

Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth. Michael Leslie Jones was born on 27 December 1944 in Portsmouth, England. Jones started playing guitar at an early age, and decided to pursue a career in music. He began his professional music career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the Gladiators, who scored two minor British hit singles in 1961. After the demise of Nero and the Gladiators, Jones worked as a songwriter and session musician in France for such artists as Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, and Johnny Hallyday, for whom he wrote many songs, including "Je suis né dans la rue" and "À tout casser" (which features Jimmy Page on guitar). When The Beatles toured France in 1964, they befriended Jones when Hallyday's girlfriend and future wife, Sylvie Vartan, played on the same bill as they did. Between 1965 and 1971, Jones recorded in France with Tommy Brown (Thomas R. Browne) as State of Mickey & Tommy, as well as under other session names, including the Blackburds, Nimrod, and the J&B.

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

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

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 Mick Jones, and not a forecast of induction.

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Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader and only continuous original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner, though he no longer tours with the band as of 2023.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founder. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 4♥'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. After leaving France to return to his home country, Jones joined Gary Wright, formerly of the band Spooky Tooth, to form Wonderwheel in 1971.
2. In 1972, Jones and Wright reformed Spooky Tooth and, after that, Jones was a member of the Leslie West Band.
3. He also played guitar on the albums Wind of Change (1972) for Peter Frampton, and Dark Horse (1974) for George Harrison.
4. In 1976, Jones formed Foreigner with Ian McDonald, and recruited lead singer Lou Gramm.

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
• Michael Dempsey — 2019 Performers with The Cure
• Mike Pinder — 2018 Performers with The Moody Blues

FAQ

What is Mick Jones's birth card?

The 4 of Hearts. December 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 Mick Jones's dates come from?

Birth date 1944-12-27 is the day-precision date on Mick Jones'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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