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.
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk“It’s gone down the pan... drastically,” Thomas Beech says. He's sat nursing a can of Pepsi outside Woodley Precinct’s Startpoint Cafe. “In the past 15 to 20 years this place has gone right down the pan, especially Mill Lane estate.
It’s not what it used to be at all. It’s a no-go area sometimes - that’s not exaggerating. “If you said you came from Woodley, people used to think you were posh.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. I suppose it’s the same with a lot of places.” The 60-year-old has lived on Woodley’s Mill Lane estate for 30 years.
He despairs as he describes the decline he has seen over the past couple of decades. “Some kids are feral,” he adds. “I have seen kids roaming the streets at 3am.
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