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.
Dad who lost wife and three kids in crash on dream Florida holiday shares harrowing story
dailyrecord.co.ukA dad whose wife and three children were killed in a horror car crash during a dream holiday in Florida has opened up on his agony for the first time after penning a book about the tragedy.Alan Atkinson, from Helensburgh, had taken his wife Adrienne, 35, 11-year-old son Nigel and nine-year-old twin daughters Lucy and Anna, on a celebratory trip to the US in 1981 after getting a new job.The family were travelling through the Everglades to the airport for their return flight home when their car was struck by another driver who had a drink in his hand and wasn't using his headlights.He reversed at speed into the rental car Alan was driving and wiped out his entire family in an instant.Retired RAF pilot Alan, now 80, told the Record: "My family had everything to look forward to but it was taken away in a heartbeat."All I ever aspired to be was a father.
I married my beautiful wife in 1966 and we had three lovely children. Everything was fantastic."All that changed in the Everglades."The impact of the crash sent the family's vehicle careering into the deep waters of a nearby wetland canal.Alan was the only one who made it out alive.He continued: "We were all concussed by the impact of the crash and the car was sitting on top of the water.
I remember my wife saying that the water was starting to come in and the next thing I knew the car was sitting at the bottom of 25ft of water."My door was open and survival instinct kicked in.
I managed to get myself to the top. People came and tried to save my family but the car was too far down."Three days after the crash, I returned home alone."Alan eventually returned to his career and began piloting the famous Concorde, but the grieving husband and father struggled to find peace in the
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