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.
Scotland's first cinema over 100 years old that still screens movies to this day
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scottish cinema built over 100 years ago that is said to be the oldest surviving purpose-built movie theatre in the country remains open to this day.Scotland has earned a reputation for being a Hollywood hotspot in recent years, with blockbusters such as Avengers: Infinity War, The Batman, Skyfall, and Fast & Furious 9 all using the country as a filming location.Journey back to the early 1900s, however, and it was a very different story.
Back then, the only way most people could experience moving pictures was to attend special events and exhibition spaces.In Scotland, that all changed in 1912 with the construction of the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness near Falkirk.
Believed to be the oldest picture house in the country, it was built for pioneering Bo'ness cinematographer Louis Dickson.The building was designed by local architect Matthew Steele, and is a rare surviving example of pre-art deco cinema architecture.
It originally consisted of a circus-like circular auditorium with a wrap-around gallery and a small stage.The Hippodrome Cinema officially opened its doors to the public on March 11, 1912.
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