Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Phil Rudd's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
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
Phillip Hugh Norman Rudd (born Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis, 19 May 1954) is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of AC/DC across three stints (1975–1983, 1994–2015, 2018–present). The birth-card coordinate for May 19 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2003 Performers with AC/DC induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2003 Performers — inducted member of AC/DC
The King of Clubs coordinate
Phil Rudd's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Rudd. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.
Phil Rudd in the public record
On the 1977 departure of bass guitarist Mark Evans from AC/DC, Rudd became the only Australian-born member of the band. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other members of AC/DC. In 2014, Rudd released his first solo album, Head Job. Due to ongoing legal problems in New Zealand, where he is a resident, Rudd was unable to join the band for the 2015 Rock or Bust World Tour and was replaced by Chris Slade. On 30 September 2020, AC/DC confirmed that Rudd would be rejoining the band for their comeback album Power Up. In 1974 Rudd was told about AC/DC's rhythm section auditions by his former Coloured Balls bandmate Trevor Young (no relation to AC/DC's Young brothers). Rudd asked Buster Brown bassist Geordie Leach to accompany him to the auditions, but Leach refused due to other commitments. Rudd auditioned and was hired immediately.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Phil Rudd (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Phil Rudd's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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 K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 4♥, 10♠, 4♠, J♦, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- Rudd's drumming style suited the band's style of music and became an integral part of AC/DC's sound from 1975 to 1983.
- The band relocated to the United Kingdom in 1976 and followed a heavy schedule of international touring and recording.
- A letter written by AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott to his sister Valerie during the 1978 Powerage tour claims Rudd suffered "a bit of a nervous breakdown & had to spend a lot of time with a shrink.
- It was really bad but luckily he got over it quickly enough not to upset the band.
Other inductees with this card
- Artimus Pyle — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Dennis Stratton — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Dusty Hill — 2004 Performers with ZZ Top
- George Harrison — 1988 Performers with The Beatles; 2004 Performers
- Gillian Gilbert — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Gregg Rolie — 1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey
- Ian Curtis — 2026 Performers with Joy Division
- Iggy Pop — 2010 Performers with The Stooges
- Jackson Browne — 2004 Performers
- Janick Gers — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Joey Ambrose — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Joey Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
- 14 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Phil Rudd's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. May 19 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 Rudd's dates come from?
- Birth date 1954-05-19 is the day-precision date on Phil Rudd'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, Phil Rudd) + Wikidata CC0 (Q345400). Birth date 1954-05-19 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).