Jah Wobble is a singular figure in British music. Raised in London’s East End as John Wardle (his “Wobble” nickname came courtesy of a drunk and slurry Sid Vicious), he was expelled from school and briefly worked in a library, becoming obsessed with writers including Camus and Zola before being sacked for talking to the customers. Whilst enrolled at Kingsway College of Further Education in the early ‘70s, he met John Lydon, and as one of the “Four Johns” (along with Lydon, John Gray, and John Ritchie, aka Sid Vicious), was at the forefront of the punk explosion, and later formed Public Image L…
