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Steve Jones's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
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
Stephen Philip Jones (born 3 September 1955) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the punk band Sex Pistols. The birth-card coordinate for September 3 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2006 Performers — inducted member of Sex Pistols
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Steve Jones's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Steve Jones. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Steve Jones in the public record
Following the split of the Sex Pistols, he formed the Professionals with former bandmate Paul Cook. He has released two solo albums, and worked with Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, Bob Dylan and Thin Lizzy. In 1995, he formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders with members of Guns N' Roses and Duran Duran. Jones was ranked No. 97 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Jones was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, where he grew up with his young mother, who worked as a hairdresser, and his grandparents. He first moved to Benbow Road in Shepherd's Bush and then to Nine Elms in Battersea. Jones befriended future bandmate Paul Cook in his childhood.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Steve Jones (musician) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Steve Jones's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — 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 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- He was an only child and his father, Don Jarvis, a professional boxer, left when he was two years old.
- He revealed in his 2016 autobiography Lonely Boy that he was sexually abused by his stepfather, Ron Dambagella, which he blamed for his later sex addiction and inability to form lasting relationships.
- He was a student at the Christopher Wren School, now Phoenix High School, London in White City Estate, Shepherd's Bush, though he rarely attended.
- He revealed that he was functionally illiterate until he was in his 40s.
Other inductees with this card
- Adam "MCA" Yauch — 2012 Performers with Beastie Boys
- Al Green — 1995 Performers
- Al Jardine — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Billie Joe Armstrong — 2015 Performers with Green Day
- Butch Trucks — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
- Dolly Parton — 2022 Performers
- Eric Burdon — 1994 Performers with The Animals
- Hillel Slovak — 2012 Performers with Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Hiro Yamamoto — 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
- Ilan Rubin — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
- Jack Casady — 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane
- Jackie Wilson — 1987 Performers
- 13 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Steve Jones's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. September 3 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 Steve Jones's dates come from?
- Birth date 1955-09-03 is the day-precision date on Steve Jones'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, Steve Jones (musician)) + Wikidata CC0 (Q347986). Birth date 1955-09-03 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).