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 appear at Glastonbury. She is married and lives in the West Midlands.What is your earliest memory? Puking all over my mother’s freshly ironed sheets when she told me that I was adopted. She was not amused and she smacked me. I was four and a half; it was before I started going to school. I needed to be told because all my family was white. Continue reading...