 He was nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers".In 2011, he was voted as the greatest bass guitarist of all time in a "Rolling Stone" magazine readers' poll, and in its special "100 Greatest Bass Players" issue in 2017, "Bass Player" magazine named Entwistle at number seven.John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 in Chiswick, a district of west London.