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.
'It's amazing. My life now is amazing'.... what it's like to have an organ transplant during a pandemic - after a heart attack at just 25
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox It was in the early hours of his birthday in November last year when Carl Flynn got the call. “We’ve got you a heart,” said the transplant co-ordinator.
In normal pre-Covid times, hearing those words would be a monumental moment, but during a pandemic lockdown they took on even greater meaning, and risk, for Carl, 32.
Many patients had been removed from the transplant list, or transplant programmes closed, during the peak of the Covid crisis as it was riskier to carry out the complex procedures and NHS resources were under extra pressure. READ MORE: Clinically extremely vulnerable have been advised to stay away from unvaccinated people and socialise
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