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 unassuming council building that housed Manchester's lost 'tropical' paradise
manchestereveningnews.co.ukApproaching the building, you would never have guessed the exotic oasis that lay inside. Apart from an unusual pyramid-shaped roof, it was to all appearances a fairly unremarkable looking 1980s council building.
But once inside, a tropical indoor playground was revealed that became renowned across Manchester. Gorton Tub made memories that lasted a lifetime and was the place every child wanted to go.
Despite its name making it sound like a Victorian bathhouse, it was far from just any ordinary suburban swimming pool - it was Manchester's own inner-city water park. Read More:Loved and lost Greater Manchester family fun centre had 'everything under one roof' Just like The Water Place in Bolton, Gorton Tub opened to great fanfare in 1988.
Crowds of kids spent many fun-filled hours splashing about in its chlorinated water before heading for a Slush Puppie and a chocolate bar, or if you were lucky, a burger and chips.
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