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 café in the shadow of Strangeways where only one thing matters
manchestereveningnews.co.ukEstate agents talk a lot about ‘kerb appeal’. It can make or break a sale. If the same thing applied to That’s Thai, it would have closed its doors long ago.
They may not have opened in the first place. This tiny café, next to an MOT garage, is tucked away at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road, behind the all-night snooker place that you’ve seen a thousand times but never been to.
On a good day with the right wind, the smell of sweet Thai basil and fish sauce must drift across to the exercise yards of Strangeways. Read more of Ben Arnold's food writing covering Greater Manchester... 'I had the best pie of my life on one of Manchester's last cobbled streets' The Rolls-Royce of pies and the warm est welcome at the UK's best pub, just an hour from Manchester On a dark Tuesday night, customers file in and file out like there’s a revolving door, and nearly all of them are called by first names.
One, who clearly works in the theatre, is discussing her latest production, and another, who casually wanders in in what looks a bit like pyjamas, is asked if he’s having ‘the usual’.
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