Jah Wobble

August 11, 1958 — Stepney, East London, England

John Joseph Wardle, known by the stage name Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. John Wardle originally met John Lydon, John Grey and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London, in 1973. It was Vicious who originally nicknamed John “Jah Wobble” after a drunken binge, and would also loan him his first bass guitar. Jah Wobble has appeared with Public Image Ltd, African Head Charge, The Invaders of the Heart, Holger Czukay and many others.