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.
“You want to see how wicked I can be?”: Man strangled ex-girlfriend then threatened to kill her and her son
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city A man strangled his ex-girlfriend and threatened to kill her and her son - he asked her: “You want to see how wicked I can be"?
Graham Hammond, 45, had been with his partner for three years, but was jealous, abusive and violent after just six months of being together.
On one occasion he came home drunk and on drugs from a night out, and accused her of ‘thinking she was better than him’, Manchester Crown Court heard. Read more: Drunken thug promised to kill partner and her family at 60th birthday party - then repeated it in front of police He then headbutted her and threw her into a cast iron fireplace, which then fell on top of her.
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