Simon Kirke's Birth Card: The King of Hearts

In the record

Simon Frederick St George Kirke (born 28 July 1949) is an English musician who was the co-founder, drummer, and only continuous member of the rock supergroup Bad Company. The birth-card coordinate for July 28 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Performers with Bad Company induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2025 Performers — inducted member of Bad Company

The King of Hearts coordinate

Simon Kirke's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 Kirke. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.

Live King of Hearts meaning page

Simon Kirke in the public record

Prior to forming Bad Company, he was the drummer and co-founder of Free. Kirke was born in Lambeth, South London, the son of Vivian Percy Kirke and Olive May (née Pollard) Kirke, who married in 1948. Simon's father was from a junior branch of a family of Nottinghamshire landed gentry, and descended on his mother's side from the Gibson-Craig baronets. Kirke spent his early years living in the countryside of Shropshire. Leaving school at 17, he returned to London and set about finding a drumming job in the booming blues scene. After a fruitless 22 months he was resigned to returning to the country when he met Paul Kossoff, who was playing in a band called Black Cat Bones. Kirke was offered the drumming position in the band, and played with Black Cat Bones for six months. Kirke and Paul Kossoff left the band and with Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser formed Free.

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

Where the record meets the King 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 Kirke, and not a forecast of induction.

Commanding emotional authority with depth and care

Simon's father was from a junior branch of a family of Nottinghamshire landed gentry, and descended on his mother's side from the Gibson-Craig baronets.

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

Also on the record

1. Their biggest hit, "All Right Now", was a number one in more than 20 territories and was acknowledged by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) in 1990 as having received more than one million radio plays in the US by late 1989.
2. In 2000, an award was given to Paul Rodgers by the British music industry when "All Right Now" passed two million radio plays in the UK.
3. By April 1972, Free had reformed with Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers making peace, and Kossoff appeared to pull it together if only briefly.
4. Kossoff resumed taking drugs during the US tour to support the last album by the original quartet Free at Last.

Other inductees with this card

• Chas Chandler — 1994 Performers with The Animals
• Duane Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• Eddie Brigati — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
• Elliot Easton — 2018 Performers with The Cars
• Florence Ballard — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
• Greg Hawkes — 2018 Performers with The Cars
• Joe Walsh — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Keith Richards — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
• Mel Taylor — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
• Michael "Mike D" Diamond — 2012 Performers with Beastie Boys
• Mike Bloomfield — 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Phife Dawg — 2024 Performers with A Tribe Called Quest
• 1 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Simon Kirke's birth card?

The King of Hearts. July 28 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 Kirke's dates come from?

Birth date 1949-07-28 is the day-precision date on Simon Kirke'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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