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The best possible of Britain’s first generation skiffle bands, and perhaps probably the most purist aswell, the Vipers were formed in early 1956 at London’s fabled Bread Container Coffee Pub by guitarists Wally Whyton, Johnny Booker, and Jean Van Den Bosch and washboard wizard John Pilgrim — there is by …

In Sept of 1956, a quintet comprising Wally Whyton (guitar, vocals), Johnny Booker (guitar, vocals), Jean Van Der Bosch (vocals, guitar), Tony Tolhurst (bass), and John Pilgrim (washboard) played out an audition at Abbey Street for the top of Parlophone Information, George Martin. These were duly registered and, in January …