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.
The abandoned underground rail network Manchester could have had
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe future of Manchester's rail network is about to be hotly debated over the next few weeks. Today, the city will make its case in Parliament outlining the benefits of building an underground station at Piccadilly.
The government has been urged to rethink its current HS2 plans amid accusations the multi-billion pound project to modernise the railway in the North of England is being done on the cheap.
The current plan is to bring high speed trains to the city on 'ugly and intrusive' concrete stilts. This would swallow up 500,000 square metres of prime city centre land which could be used to create much-needed housing and new green spaces. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link Instead of the current plans which could see the city scarred by a concrete jungle of viaducts and ugly structures, there has been call for the creation of an underground station as an alternative solution that would future-proof passengers needs for decades to come.
Without an underground station, Northern Powerhouse Rail trains travelling from Liverpool to Leeds would also have to turn around when they reach Manchester rather than running straight through.
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