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.
Letters written by Scots brothers killed during World War 1 fetch £2.8k at auction
dailyrecord.co.ukWorld War I have fetched £2800 at auction – nearly five times the £600 estimate. The letters were written by brothers Eric and Ronald Travis Townsend, from Troon in Ayrshire, to their mother Lucy, who preserved their words lovingly along with photographs of her sons in leather-bound albums so they would not be forgotten.
In one letter, Eric jokingly asked his mother “Is haggis postable?” to Palestine, where he was stationed in the run-up to Christmas.
Meanwhile, Ronald, who had emigrated to Canada in 1913, wrote expressing his desire to return and fight for his country to make his children proud.Eric, a captain in the 5th Highland Light Infantry, was only 22 when he was killed in action on November 8, 1917.Ronald, of the Royal Flying.
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