Pauline Black: ‘My most unappealing habit? Bluntness’

The Selecter singer on being told she was adopted aged four, falling offstage, and a close brush with deathBorn in Essex, Pauline Black, 71, worked as a radiographer before becoming lead singer of the Selecter in 1979. The band’s hit singles include On My Radio, Three Minute Hero and Missing Words. Black was made an OBE in 2022 for services to entertainment. A documentary about her life, Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story is on Sky Arts and Now TV from 16 April, and the Selecter are due to