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 men sleeping on freezing streets during the coldest night of the year - and the complex reasons they are there
manchestereveningnews.co.uk"Go away, I have had people pecking my head all night - I have had no sleep." My first attempt to speak to a man sleeping rough on the freezing streets of Manchester does not go well.
Bleary eyed and cocooned in a grubby sleeping bag in a shop doorway, he doesn't take kindly to me waking him from his half sleep.
And I can't say I blame him. It can't have been very comfortable trying to get his head down on the coldest night of the year on Market Street. Read more: A couple of hours later as I pass him again, he's sat up, alert and smiling at strangers.
I approach him again and apologise for my early morning intrusion. Much more amiable now he's up and about, I crouch next to him to chat.
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