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Simon Gallup's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

2019 Performers with The Cure

Born June 1, 1960

The Sorrowful Truth

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

Simon Johnathon Gallup (born 1 June 1960) is an English musician who is best known as bassist for The Cure, which he first joined in 1979 and for which he has played through most of the band's history. The birth-card coordinate for June 1 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2019 Performers with The Cure induction.

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The 3 of Spades coordinate

Simon Gallup's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Simon Gallup. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Simon Gallup in the public record

Gallup is the second-longest-serving member of the band, after vocalist and leader Robert Smith. Gallup was born in Duxhurst, Surrey, and his family soon moved to Horley. Starting in 1976, he frequented the music scene in nearby Crawley, where his older brother Ric worked in a record shop and knew many local musicians. In 1977, Gallup formed the punk band Lockjaw, which later evolved into the post-punk band the Magazine Spies (also known as Mag/Spys). Those bands frequently played and socialized with early versions of The Cure. In late 1979, Gallup participated in the short-lived Cure side project Cult Hero. A short time later, original Cure bassist Michael Dempsey left the band, and Gallup was recruited as his replacement. Gallup played on the albums Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography; and on the second of those he began to play keyboards occasionally in addition to his full-time bass duties.

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Simon Gallup, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Simon Gallup's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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.

Integrating compassion with hard-won wisdom

9♥ — Planetary Ruling Card, fixed to the 3♠, from the published 9 of Hearts meaning

Gallup was born in Duxhurst, Surrey, and his family soon moved to Horley.

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

Also on the record

  1. During the tour supporting the Pornography album in 1982, band relations within The Cure became contentious.
  2. After a performance in Strasbourg, France, on 27 May 1982, Gallup and Robert Smith got into a fistfight reportedly over a disputed bar tab.
  3. The tour continued, and at another performance in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 June, the band invited roadie Gary Biddles (a friend of Gallup's) on stage to sing one song, during which Biddles criticized the other members Smith and Lol Tolhurst.
  4. This further exacerbated tensions among the members of the band.

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FAQ

What is Simon Gallup's birth card?
The 3 of Spades. June 1 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 Simon Gallup's dates come from?
Birth date 1960-06-01 is the day-precision date on Simon Gallup'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, Simon Gallup) + Wikidata CC0 (Q45175). Birth date 1960-06-01 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).