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.
'I used to drink 28 pints and a bottle of vodka a day... then I was told I had two hours to live'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStaring up at the fluorescent lights on the hospital ceiling, Ashley Varley knew he'd hit rock bottom. The 38-year-old was just hours away from death after drinking himself into oblivion.
Boozing to the point he didn't know his own name was a state he got into every single day. And now his life was at risk. Something had to change.
Just 10 years earlier, things were completely different. Settled down in a house with his childhood sweetheart and three children, Ashley was living the dream.
He had everything he’d ever wanted. Until he didn’t. Without realising it, Ashley, from Oldham, had developed an alcohol addiction.
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