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.
Hopes of allotments behind pub slashed as housing plans pass
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Plans to build eight houses on a former bowling green which hosted festivals and community events for many years have been approved by Salford council.
The land behind the Rock House pub in Barton will be used for housing. It comes after calls for the plot off Peel Green Road to be used for allotments – but landowner Punch Pubs was not willing to sell the site for these purposes. READ MORE: This green space was used by a community for years – now it could become housing Salford council's planning panel approved the application on Thursday (July 29) after deferring its decision on the proposal at a previous meeting on June 3.
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