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Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story review – original rude girl is still impossibly cool
The Selecter frontwoman recounts her own astonishing personal journey interwoven with her pioneering presence in 70s musical history
‘I was never going to be a nice little white girl,” says Pauline Black, singer with the ska band the Selecter – and a woman with an amazing personal story to tell. There’s her childhood growing up as an adopted mixed-race girl in a white family in 1960s Romford in east London, and her time as the impossibly cool frontwoman of the Selecter. DJ Don Letts says Black was the first lady of 2 Tone and today, she is still rocking her 70s rude girl look: the sharp boy’s suits and pork pie hats.
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