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.
Clement Attlee - the brave surburban revolutionary who rebuilt postwar Britain
mirror.co.ukWhen Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said.
There were indeed jobs to be done, and he did them – leaving a postwar legacy that still lives on today. It is 75 years since he became Prime Minister, beating Winston Churchill in the general election in July 1945.
For the next six years he led a government that would transform the country and lay the foundations on which so much that we value in this country still rest.
These achievements were all the more remarkable given that they were forged in the gloom of an economy broken by war and with a Cabinet riven by rivalries, distrust and raging egos.
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