Mick Jones's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Michael Geoffrey Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of punk rock band the Clash, until his dismissal by frontman Joe Strummer in 1983. The birth-card coordinate for June 26 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2003 Performers with The Clash induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2003 Performers — inducted member of The Clash

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Mick Jones's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic 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 put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

Live 4 of Clubs meaning page

Mick Jones in the public record

In 1984, he formed Big Audio Dynamite with Don Letts. Jones has played with the band Carbon/Silicon along with Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik) since 2002 and was part of the Gorillaz live band for a world tour in 2010. In late 2011, Jones collaborated with Pete Wylie and members of the Farm to form the Justice Tonight Band. Michael Geoffrey Jones was born on 26 June 1955 in Wandsworth, London, England, to a Welsh father, Tommy Jones, and a Russian Jewish mother, Renee Zegansky. He spent much of his early life living with his maternal grandmother, Stella Class, who was born in 1899 to Jewish parents in Russia and escaped the Russian pogroms by migrating to the United Kingdom. Jones' cousin is Grant Shapps, the former Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield. Jones went to Strand School in south London, and the West London School of Art (Chelsea College of Art), because "[he] thought that's how you get into bands and stuff". But even before the [New York] Dolls, I used to follow bands around.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Mick Jones, and not a forecast of induction.

You care for people without disappearing. You're wired for harmony and devotion—attuned to others' needs and moved to meet them. You create peace and care in your relationships, and people feel tended to in your presence. Love, for you, is something you actively give.

Strummer later described Jones as having become "intolerable" to work with during this time, often failing to show up, and when he did, acting like "Elizabeth Taylor in a filthy mood." Meanwhile, the personal relationship between Jones and Simonon had deteriorated to the point they were not on speaking terms, with Simonon feeling the band had to fire Jones or break up.

Paired on shared wording: feeling, relationship.

Also on the record

1. I followed Mott the Hoople up and down the country.
2. I'd go to Liverpool or Newcastle or somewhere—sleep on the Town Hall steps, and bunk the fares on the trains, hide in the toilet when the ticket inspector came around.
3. I'd jump off just before the train got to the station and climb over the fence.
4. It was great times, and I always knew I wanted to be in a band and play guitar.

Other inductees with this card

• Ben Shepherd — 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
• Chris Layton — 2015 Performers with Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Chuck Berry — 1986 Performers
• Cliff Williams — 2003 Performers with AC/DC
• Colin Greenwood — 2019 Performers with Radiohead
• Donna Jean Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• GZA — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
• Garry Shider — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Gladys Knight — 1996 Performers with Gladys Knight & the Pips
• John Fogerty — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Johnny Moore — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Laura Nyro — 2012 Performers
• 1 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Mick Jones's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. June 26 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 1955-06-26 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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