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.
Life, death and strange goings on: Secrets of the gravedigger who lived in Stockport Cemetery for 35 years
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIan Stokes called Stockport Cemetery home for 35 years. The 65-year-old gravedigger, who retired at Easter, moved into the cemetery’s lodge in 1985, with his wife Gillian.He hadn’t always planned to work in a graveyard, but after he was made redundant from his job at a furniture shop in Portwood in July 1983, it was an opportunity he felt he couldn't turn down.He said: "A lad who worked at the crematorium, he said 'There’s a job going at the cemetery if you’re interested.’ The kids were only young and it’s a job, so I said ‘I’ll give it a go’.
That was all them years ago.”After taking his reference along, Ian was offered the job. Two years later he moved into the lodge and spent the best part of the next four decades digging graves by.
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