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.
Inside Rock Hudson's tragic secret life as a closeted and abused movie star
mirror.co.ukThe life of the Hollywood matinée idol Rock Hudson is an eventful and often tragic one. The icon of Golden Age Tinseltown is getting a new dramatic treatment in the glamorous Netflix mini-series Hollywood, but what happened in his real-life?
Born as Leroy 'Roy' Harold Scherer on November 17, 1925 in Winnetka, Illinois, he was the son of a mechanic and telephone operator.
During the Great Depression, Roy's father lost his job and abandoned the family, divorcing his mother when Roy was four. Roy's mother remarried to Wallace Fitzgerald in 1932 to a former Marine Corps officer who adopted Roy and who Roy despised due to abusive and alcoholic behaviour.
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