Roger Waters's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. The birth-card coordinate for September 6 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1996 Performers — inducted member of Pink Floyd

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Roger Waters's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Roger Waters. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

Live 5 of Diamonds meaning page

Roger Waters in the public record

In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the band's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's principal lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. His solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils's libretto about the French Revolution.

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

Where the record meets the 5 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 Roger Waters, and not a forecast of induction.

You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed. You crave variety in resources and experiences. You get bored with one income stream, one investment, one way of working. You need novelty and freedom in your material life.

His solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017).

Paired on shared wording: life, work.

Also on the record

1. In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin.
2. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
3. Later in 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd for the Live 8 global awareness event, their only appearance with Waters since 1981.
4. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999.

Other inductees with this card

• Bobby Darin — 1990 Performers
• Bun E. Carlos — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
• Claydes Charles Smith — 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang
• David Byrne — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
• Dusty Springfield — 1999 Performers
• Gene Cornish — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
• Jack Bruce — 1993 Performers with Cream
• Jimmy Reed — 1991 Performers
• John Hartman — 2020 Performers with The Doobie Brothers
• Kurt Cobain — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
• Mavis Staples — 1999 Performers with The Staple Singers
• Pete Farndon — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
• 8 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Roger Waters's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. September 6 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 Roger Waters's dates come from?

Birth date 1943-09-06 is the day-precision date on Roger Waters'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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