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.
First look at how the old Strangeways Boddingtons Brewery site is being transformed into a £93m college for the future
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor more than 200 years, Boddingtons brewery in Strangeways was one of Manchester's most famous brands. Founded by two grain merchants, Thomas Caister and Thomas Fray, on the eve of the industrial revolution in 1778, the business of selling beer to thirsty factory workers proved to be a winner. READ MORE: New food hall and 'community hub' in Sale set to open in time for Christmas As Manchester's population boomed, so did profits.
Since then however, palates have changed as have the fortunes of regional breweries. The iconic Boddies chimney tumbled down when the brewery was demolished in 2007 and the site has been used for cheap city centre car parking ever since.
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