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.
Crazed Scots trucker who drove lorry through girlfriend's living room jailed for 10 years
dailyrecord.co.ukA trucker who destroyed his then-lover's home by reversing his articulated lorry into the front of her house was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday.
Derek Wellington, 34, flew into a drunken rage after his girlfriend, Sara Cassidy, refused to meet him. He screamed down the phone at her: "I am going to park my lorry in your living room." Miss Cassidy, 33, later out on the street near her home in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, she spotted Wellington driving past.
Sounds described as "like an earthquake" then rent the air as Wellington repeatedly reversed his HGV into Miss Cassidy's house, completely wrecking it.
The destruction left a £475,000 repair bill with both Miss Cassidy and a neighbour losing their homes. A friend and two children who were inside at the time escaped unhurt.
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