John Giblin

Giblin is exactly the kind of musician I find most fascinating: the indispensable sideman whose fingerprints are all over records you love without ever seeing his name on the cover. Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Kate Bush, Simple Minds, Brand X. That is a staggering range of contexts to thrive in, and it speaks to a player who served the song rather than his own ego. The fact that he moved fluidly between jazz, classical, rock, and the avant-garde tells me he was a genuine listener first. His 2023 passing closed a quietly remarkable career, but the low end he laid down endures.

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Name (English)

John Giblin

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ギブリン

Reading

じょん・ぎぶりん

Born

February 26, 1952 – May 14, 2023

Origin

Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Occupation

bassist / guitarist / musician / bass singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://www.johngiblin.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Giblin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924682

Tags

• bassist
• guitarist
• musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.