Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
A luxury tiki bar with human-sized birdcages has opened in the Northern Quarter
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA new tiki bar has opened in the Northern Quarter, turning the old Apotheca site into a tropical paradise. Lono Cove is an award-winning bar concept that first opened in Chester in 2018.
Its new two-storey bar in Manchester is filled with huge birdcage seating booths, masses of plants, and luxury touches like a brass-topped bar and pink leather seats. READ MORE: New restaurants and bars opening in Manchester in October 2021 Former Big Brother star Luke Edge is behind the concept, and wanted to design a bar that had 'all the magic of tiki but in a sumptuous setting'.
The old Apotheca cocktail bar was one of the area's longest-standing establishments, but it - along with its sister restaurant Dough - never reopened after lockdown.
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