Jah Wobble (1958)
John Joseph Wardle is an English bass guitarist and singer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the…
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Christina Boxer (1957)
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Eleanor Audley (1905)
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Karine Chemla (1957)
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