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 'Gay Village character' who was never the same after a police dog attacked him in Gorton
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Ian Bradley was walking with a friend in the early hours when he was caught short.
The medication he was on due to a heart condition included water tablets and he needed to urinate. He did so in the seclusion of a cemetery near Sunnybrow Park in Gorton, Manchester.
The decision would have consequences for the rest of his life. Moments later a dog's teeth were 'ripping' into his leg, he would later recall.
He had thought it was pit bull type loose in the area. But he then realised it was a German Shepherd and it had a handler, with a torch - a police officer.
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