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.
Ex-solider bursts into laughter outside court after mauling two policewomen in drunken rampage - but blames being traumatised by PTSD
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA former soldier who mauled two policewomen in a drunken rampage let out a huge belly laugh outside court after being spared jail.
Craig Livesey, 42, bit one of the female officers on the hand and the other on the leg as they and a male colleague detained him for abusing passers-by outside a pub in Stockport.
One of the officers was bitten with such force during the struggle, she initially feared her attacker had taken a lump of flesh with him.
The other PC said doctors told her a bite wound on her leg was 'worse than any other bite.' READ MORE: Paedophile walks free from court after vile chats with young girls...
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