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.
Killer husband jailed for stabbing wife 300 times in 'episode of unspeakable and barbaric savagery'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A jealous husband killed his wife by stabbing her 300 times in "an episode of unspeakable and barbaric savagery", a judge said.
George Leather, 60, used four different knives to inflict around 100 wounds to the face and head of the woman he had been married to for 34 years.
Paula Leather, 56, was unrecognisable when she was found dead at their home in Prescot, Merseyside, in November last year, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Paula, a much-loved nan who worked at Asda, was left for dead at the foot of the stairs, while her husband went upstairs for a shower, the Liverpool Echo reports.
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