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 was the kind of place you were warned about, then went and found it was brilliant': Remembering Dreamers, the tiny indie club above a curry house in Oldham
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxFirst you had to get past the fearsome bouncer in a dickie bow.Then you had to navigate the narrow, rickety staircase - no mean feat if you'd had a few.But if you managed that you were almost certainly in for a good night.
If you were a New Romantic, a punk or an indie kid in Oldham anytime from the late 70s to the late 90s chances are you went to Dreamers.
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