I’m argumentative.
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Pauline Black
b. 1954
Born 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.
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It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
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Fizzy like lemonade.
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Not being able to perform adequately.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
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I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
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An umbilical cord.
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Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
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I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
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I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
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My husband snoring.
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