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== Pauline Black == As the front cover of this volume of reminiscences reminds us, Pauline Black is remembered first and foremost for fronting The Selecter, one of the few 2-Tone ska bands to... more

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    Advantages Advantages Interesting showbiz tale and also in part moving family saga

    Disadvantages Disadvantages No discography or index...yet again

    Pauline Black As the front cover of this volume of reminiscences reminds us, Pauline Black is remembered first and foremost for fronting The Selecter, one of the few 2-Tone ska bands to enjoy fleeting chart success at the end of the 1970s – and one of the even fewer who are still playing today. Yet reading this makes clear that that was only the tip of the iceberg. The book Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jamaican and Nigerian parents, Pauline was adopted by a white working-class family in Romford. For a black girl to be growing up in a predominantly white community at that time was pretty tough, and ... more

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Author Pauline Black
Edition Paperback
EAN 9781846687907
Title Black by Design

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