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.”

His role in the meeting of Morrissey and Marr:

"Shortly afterwards, Pomfret was approached by Maher outside a newsagents. “Johnny said, ‘Hi, Pommy’ as though he knew me. I didn’t know him at all. He was with his girlfriend Angie and they were dressed in leather and looked very exotic. He said, ‘You know a guy named Morrissey, don’t you? Let’s get something together!’ Johnny’s personality is so strong that you feel consumed by him as soon as you meet him. I couldn’t think of anything else all day.” Maher and Pomfret started jamming together for a brief period during which Johnny once again pushed the ‘Morrissey issue’. Allman remembers them visiting his house one afternoon when Maher was in full flow, coaxing his new friend. “Come on, Pommy,” he said. “Let’s go round and sound out this guy.” Pomfret had not seen Steven for some time, but agreed to accompany Maher to his house in Stretford. Pop music history was about to be made."