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.
MI5 spies bugged UB40 phones and houses fearing a socialist revolution, claims band’s drummer
msn.comUB40 has claimed that MI5 spies bugged the band’s phones amid fears they were plotting a socialist revolution. Jimmy Brown – the drummer of the reggae group best known for their 1983 hit “Red Red Wine” – alleged that the British security service were watching UB40 members’ homes and tapping their phones in the Eighties.
Brown told The Guardian: “MI5 were tapping our phones, watching our houses. All sorts. ” “We thought, ‘Haven’t they got criminals to catch?’” he said. “We were just a bunch of potheads, smoking weed and playing music, talking about solving the world’s problems. ”The 63-year-old continued: “We weren’t planning the revolution, but if the revolution happened, we knew what side we were going to be on. ”Brown’s claims concur with.
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