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.
Bank holidays Scotland 2021 - full list of dates and reason why we don't get today off
dailyrecord.co.ukbank holiday today, Scotland is the only country that doesn't get a day off. The public holiday on August 30 means England, Wales and Northern Ireland have a three-day weekend, with banks, shops and business shut.
Scotland sadly doesn't get a day off today – because our long weekend came earlier in the month. Bank holidays across the UK differ across the four nations as the different bodies in each authority are responsible for choosing their own dates off.
Scotland's summer bank holiday fell on Monday 2 August, and always comes on the first Monday of the month. All four nations used to mark the same date, following the implementation of the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 introduced by the Liberal Politician Sir John Lubbock.The change of date.
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