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.
Controversial plans to convert former pub into bedsits revived by property firm
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor the latest Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here Controversial plans to turn a former Middleton pub into bedsits have been revived by a London property firm.
Proposals that would have seen the old Friendship Inn converted into an 11-bedroom house in multiple occupation (HMO) were refused by Rochdale council in February.
Planning chiefs said the rooms would be too small and provide future tenants with an ‘unacceptable standard of accommodation’.
But applicant Gluck has come back with a revised scheme with eight bedrooms - all bigger than under the previous application.
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