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.
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Danger Mouse and his trusty sidekick Penfold first sprang onto our screens in glorious 2D back in 1981. In the decade that followed, the eyepatch-clad super spy and his bespectacled friend went up against their nemesis, Baron Silas Greenback, hundreds of times as he unveiled a variety of dastardly plans.
But with his plots involving exploding custard and enormous chickens - the evil toad never quite got the better of Danger Mouse and Penfold.
The brainchild of animators at Chorlton-based Cosgrove Hall, Danger Mouse ran for more than a decade - at one point drawing in more viewers than Coronation Street.
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