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.
Lotto winner who secured $27m ended up living in shed covered in human faeces five years later
dailyrecord.co.ukA man who bagged a $27million lottery jackpot ended up blowing all the money in just five years and living in a shed covered in human faeces.
David Lee Edwards was a convicted felon from Ashland, Kentucky whose life should have been changed forever when he won a quarter-share of the Powerball $280m jackpot in August 2001.Despite it being one of the biggest lottery wins in history, all of Mr Edward's money had been spent by 2006 on excessive purchases and drugs.
The first thing he had done after securing his prize was marry his girlfriend Shawna Maddux in Malibu, California and then the couple sent out to splash his cash, the Mirror reports.Just some of the lavish purchases included a mansion in a gated community, a private jet and a dozen more luxurious cars.
However, the overspending soon caught up with them and only five years later, Mr Edwards and Mrs Maddux were left penniless and living in a storage shed that was allegedly covered in human faeces.Mrs Maddux soon left to remarry and she and her new husband eventually took Mr Edwards in before finding a space for him in a hospice.
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