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.
Middleton to get 'urgently needed' new secondary school
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPlans for an 'urgently needed' new 900-place secondary school in Middleton have been given the green light.Dubbed The Edgar Wood Academy, it will be built on grazing land at Birch and Bowlee to the east of Heywood Old Road.Rochdale council’s planning committee voted nearly unanimously in favour of the scheme after hearing the area was facing a shortfall of 138 school places by 2022.The decision was reached despite passionate objections being made on behalf of local residents and a councillor raising serious concerns over the location.The ‘outline’ planning permission means the school has been approved in principle, with the full details to be set out in a ‘reserved matters’ application.Basic proposals already worked up include separate.
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