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.
How police smashed gun and machete wielding eBay robbery gang led by 'Godfather of Oldham'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest Oldham news sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here Out of prison after serving a lengthy spell in jail, drugs boss Mohammed Fareed claimed to be on the straight and narrow.
After serving a 14 year sentence for being the head of an Oldham based multi-million pound ring which flooded the streets with heroin, Fareed said his life of crime was behind him.
But the reality was quite different. Fareed, 47, dubbed the 'Godfather of Oldham', had found a new 'lucrative', terrifying criminal enterprise.
He headed a gang which lured unsuspecting, innocent car buyers, who were after nothing more than a good deal, to become victims of brutal robberies.
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