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.
Death crash driver had cocaine in his system and was twice over drink drive limit
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn angler well-known for catching the biggest fish in the North West died after driving at high speed in a 30mph zone with excess alcohol and cocaine in his system, an inquest has heard.
Paul Anthony Hargreaves, 38, sustained multiple injuries after the Land Rover Freelander he was driving along Mosley Common Road, Tyldesley, clipped the nearside kerb before veering into the path of an oncoming truck.
He died at the scene. Toxicology results showed Mr Hargreaves, of Langtree Close, Ellenbrook, Worsley, had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood and he had been using cocaine.
CCTV footage from a camera on a house just 80 yards from the scene of the accident at 9.50pm on December 15 last year showed Mr Hargreaves was driving the
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