Stephen Pomfret

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He attended several rehearsals in 1982, eventually being replaced by Dale Hibbert.
In Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance, Pomfret is quoted:

Pomfret was equally fazed by Morrissey at times. “I didn’t dislike him,” he stresses. “I found him a romantic and interesting character but, while Phil felt he was likeable and certainly intense, I thought he was a contrary bastard. If you found a record loathsome, you could guarantee he’d love it.” At one rehearsal, the Stretford youth took Pommy aside as if he was about to impart some dark secret. “Do you like chocolate?” he enquired intensely. Pomfret never did work out the significance of the question. “My first impressions of him were distant, difficult and contrary”, Pomfret reflects. “He used to ask me some very strange questions. He tried to make me feel uncomfortable and certainly succeeded. I was a bit intimidated by him.”