Patrick 'Paddy' Delaney 1931 - 2009

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The original Cavern Club Doorman Paddy Delaney died on Saturday morning aged 77, having deteriorated rapidly after a fall.
He always wore a tuxedo and rigorously enforced the club's dress code - ticking off John Lennon and George Harrison for their sloppy attire.
His son Lawrence Delaney, 40, said: "Everyone knew dad for his days at the Cavern.
"He once saw John Lennon in that green combat jacket he always wore and said 'You're going nowhere'.
"John protested that he was playing that night so dad relented and let him in but told him to smarten himself up.
"They became good friends and used to go for drinks in the Grapes a lot together.
"George Harrison was the same. He stopped him because he was wearing jeans."
Mr Delaney, father of six, whose wife Margaret died in 2003 and who leaves 12 grandchildren, took the job in 1960 for £1 a night.
He knew everything that went on in Mathew Street, and once stepped in after seeing Bill Clinton being hassled in the Grapes in the 1960s.
He also helped police cope with protesting fans when the Cavern club closed in 1973, and was the last person to leave the famous building.

His knowledge of the club was so great he was enlisted to help re-build it in the absence of blueprints in the mid 1980s.

His son said: "I used to nickname him Forrest Gump. It was almost like he stepped in and out of history."

Mr Delaney, who lived in Netherley, was a former guardsman who joined the Liverpool Parks Police.

He was a doorman at both the Locarno and Grafton Ballrooms in West Derby Road before accepting Ray McFall's offer to run the door at the Cavern.

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RIP, Paddy