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Pete Thomas's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Born August 9, 1954

The Financial Foundation Builder

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

Peter Michael Thomas (born 9 August 1954) is an English rock drummer best known for his collaboration with singer Elvis Costello, both as a member of his band the Attractions and with Costello as a solo artist. The birth-card coordinate for August 9 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions induction.

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The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Pete Thomas's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial 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 Pete Thomas. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Pete Thomas in the public record

Besides his lengthy career as a studio musician and touring drummer, he has been a member of the band Squeeze during the 1990s and a member of the supergroup Works Progress Administration during the early 2000s. Tom Waits has referred to him as "one of the best rock drummers alive." Thomas states that his favourite album and greatest influence is Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He first heard the album at the age of 14, and became greatly influenced by Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. Thomas met his drumming hero as a teenager, after waiting outside Mitchell's house for multiple days. Following early work with Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers and John Stewart, Thomas was recruited as a member of Costello's backing band the Attractions in 1977. Elvis Costello & the Attractions would spend the next decade touring the world, and recording nine albums, from This Year's Model (1978) to Blood and Chocolate (1986). Although Costello split with the Attractions between 1987 and 1993, he continued to work regularly with Thomas during this period. Thomas played drums on the albums Spike (1989), Mighty Like a Rose (1991), and Kojak Variety (recorded in 1990 but not released until 1995) and was a member of Costello's 1989–1991 touring band, The Rude 5.

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Pete Thomas's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 4♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 4♦, 5♥, 5♠, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

  1. Costello reunited with the Attractions for the albums Brutal Youth (1994) and All This Useless Beauty (1996).
  2. In 2001, Costello recruited Thomas, Faragher, and fellow Attraction Steve Nieve to record the album that became When I Was Cruel (2002).
  3. Elvis Costello & the Imposters, as they were subsequently named, have gone on to tour extensively, and recorded the album The Delivery Man (2004).
  4. From 2008 until 2010, Thomas was a member of the house band for Costello's television program Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...

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FAQ

What is Pete Thomas's birth card?
The 4 of Diamonds. August 9 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 Pete Thomas's dates come from?
Birth date 1954-08-09 is the day-precision date on Pete Thomas'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, Pete Thomas (drummer)) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1109114). Birth date 1954-08-09 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).