Phil Manzanera's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams (born 31 January 1951), known professionally as Phil Manzanera, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. The birth-card coordinate for January 31 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with Roxy Music induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2019 Performers — inducted member of Roxy Music

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Phil Manzanera's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian 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 Phil Manzanera. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Phil Manzanera in the public record

He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, and was the lead guitarist with 801 and Quiet Sun. In 2006, Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On an Island, and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. Manzanera was born on 31 January 1951 in London, England, to a Colombian mother (née Manzanera) and an English father, who worked for British Overseas Airways Corporation. He spent most of his childhood in different parts of the Americas, including Hawaii, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba. It was in Havana, Cuba, living under Batista, that the young Manzanera, aged six, encountered his first guitar, a Spanish guitar owned by his mother. His earliest musical accomplishments were Cuban folk songs inspired by the Cuban Revolution. In Venezuela, the eight-year-old Manzanera started experimenting with the sounds of the electric guitar. During his teenage years he was absorbing the twin influences of 1960s rock and roll and Latin American rhythms of merengue, cumbia, and particularly the boleros of the Mexican Armando Manzanero.

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

Where the record meets the Queen 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 Phil Manzanera, and not a forecast of induction.

Nurturing others through authentic, intuitive presence

Manzanera was born on 31 January 1951 in London, England, to a Colombian mother (née Manzanera) and an English father, who worked for British Overseas Airways Corporation.

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

Also on the record

1. In his late teens Manzanera – then a boarder at Dulwich College in south east London, where his brother was also a pupil – formed a series of school bands with his friends Bill MacCormick, later a member of Matching Mole, 801 and Random Hold, MacCormick's brother Ian (better known as music writer Ian MacDonald) and drummer Charles Hayward, later of This Heat and Camberwell Now.
2. Among the younger students at the school who saw the older boys performing in these various bands were Simon Ainley (later in 801), David Ferguson and David Rhodes; Ainley was briefly the lead vocalist for 801 in 1977, and all three were members of the late-1970s progressive group Random Hold; Rhodes subsequently became a long-serving member of Peter Gabriel's backing band.
3. The final incarnation of Manzanera's Dulwich College bands – a psychedelic outfit dubbed Pooh & the Ostrich Feather – evolved into the progressive rock quartet Quiet Sun with the addition of keyboard player Dave Jarrett.
4. They wrote a number of original songs and instrumental pieces, none of which were recorded until years later, and the band broke up when MacCormick joined Matching Mole, but Manzanera briefly revived the group in 1975 to record a full LP of their original music during the making of his first solo album Diamond Head; later he included two other previously unrecorded Quiet Sun tracks on his 2008 album Firebird V11, which also featured Charles Hayward.

Other inductees with this card

• Albert King — 2013 Performers
• Allen Collins — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Belinda Carlisle — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
• Bernie Leadon — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Björn Ulvaeus — 2010 Performers with ABBA
• Brian May — 2001 Performers with Queen
• Dennis Dunaway — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
• Graham Simpson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Jason Cooper — 2019 Performers with The Cure
• Joey Kramer — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
• John Lydon — 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols
• Keith Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• 11 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Phil Manzanera's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. January 31 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 Phil Manzanera's dates come from?

Birth date 1951-01-31 is the day-precision date on Phil Manzanera'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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