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.
'Although he to an extent brought this on himself, it doesn't justify what you did'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA teenager could have killed a man after a takeaway row escalated into a brutal attack - but he has been spared jail. Rio Acomb, 19, punched a man in the face as he argued with him after a night out in Warrington town centre on April 1, 2023.
The victim was knocked unconscious as he fell over and hit his head on the ground, before he had to be put in an induced coma, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The victim woke up around 10 hours later, the court heard, but only had a 'swelling to the back of the head'. Acomb, of Pasture Lane in Padgate, Warrington, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm.
Gerard Baxter, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, said: "[The victim] went into Warrington with his friends and they visited various nightclubs in the course of the evening and early morning.
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