married Relda at Woolton Parish Church. He spent the next thirty years working in the prison service modernising prisoners' working practices. In 1972, he left the English Prison Service to join the Scottish Prison Service and he moved to Edinburgh with his wife and three sons. In 1994, he left the Prison Service to concentrate on running the family business, a chain of dry cleaners. Quarrymen reunion In January 1997, Griffiths returned to Liverpool to meet some of his former band members at the Cavern Club's 40th anniversary. All the surviving original Quarry Men were present and during the evening they gave an impromptu performance with borrowed instruments on the stage. When the band were persuaded to reform for a charity gig in Woolton in July 1997, Griffiths had to buy a guitar and re-learn a few chords. The reunion was a huge success and generated demand for a CD. Griffiths decided that the reformed band should record an album and John Lennon’s Original Quarrymen—Get back Together was released in September 1997. Griffiths then toured widely with the Quarrymen until his last performance at the SAS Royal Garden Hotel, Trondheim, Norway on 27 November 2004. He had been complaining of back pain and it became so acute that he had a hospital check-up and pancreatic cancer was diagnosed. Death He died at his Edinburgh home from pancreatic cancer on 29 January 2005. References External links John Lennon's Original Quarrymen Obituary, The Independent 1940 births 2005 deaths British Merchant Navy officers Deaths from pancreatic cancer The Quarrymen members English pop guitarists English male guitarists Deaths from cancer in Scotland British prison officers Lead guitarists 20th-century British guitarists 20th-century British male musicians