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.
Homeless man jailed for life for murder of waiter nearly 40 years ago
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA homeless man has been jailed for life after confessing to the murder of a waiter nearly 40 years ago. Anthony Kemp, now 59, attacked Christopher Ainscough with a marble ashtray after they met on a night out in London in December 1983.
He was just 21 when he inflicted devastating head injuries, including a fractured skull, on his victim after he invited him back to his flat. READ MORE: Today, Kemp was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum term of 15-and-a-half years after he pleaded guilty to murder at the Old Bailey.
Judge Mark Dennis QC told him: “This was a wholly unjustified, brutal killing that led to the death of a harmless, well respected, good-natured man who had befriended you and caused you no harm.” The judge said the
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