DISGRACED rock star Gary Glitter no longer has a brick on the Cavern Club’s wall of fame.

It was chipped down yesterday in a U-turn by club management.

They had originally refused to replace the convicted paedophile’s brick, saying it was “a historical document”.

But following calls from a Merseyside MP – and consultation with a child abuse victim – the club stonemason chiselled it away. Pete Wylie, the Merseyside 80s pop icon and lead singer of The Mighty Wah!, took Glitter’s former spot.

The Daily Post reported yesterday that West Derby MP Bob Wareing had led the calls to have the brick removed.

He said last night: “I didn’t think he was a good role model and I wouldn’t myself have wanted to put his name up.

“I understand the club wanting to put across the history of the Cavern Club and really not leaving anything out. But on the other hand this is a special case.”

Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in 1999 and listed as a UK sex offender for downloading thousands of items of child pornography.

He was convicted of child sex abuse in Vietnam in 2005 and returned to London this year.

The Cavern had immediately removed all memorabilia and photos of Glitter but kept the brick because they could not “change the past”. The wall carries the names of hundreds of bands that played the club between 1957 and 1973.

Dave Jones, one of the directors of The Cavern, said the club asked a victim of child abuse for his thoughts on the Glitter brick. Only then did they reverse their policy and take it down.

“It’s not there any more and as far as I’m concerned that’s the end of it.

“For me, as the owner of the club, I’m puzzled as to why the story has popped up.

“There’s hundreds of thousands of people who have looked at this wall, why all of a sudden in November 2008, does someone decide that Gary Glitter’s name shouldn’t be on it any longer? I just think it’s strange.

“It’s a fact – a piece of music history – but the people who are publishing music history aren’t responsible for the actions of the musicians. What about the Rolling Stones and their problems with drugs? Where do you stop? Don’t stop at the Cavern Club door.”

Mr Jones said campaigners should move on to book publishers, compilers of hit parades and record companies and ask them to stop using Glitter’s name.

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