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 on the warehouse floor of Manchester's lost 'Amazon of its day' shopping giant
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Manchester mail order business was once mong Britain's biggest names, serving as a pre-internet Amazon-style home shopping giant.
Starting out in Manchester at the start of the 20th century, Great Universal Stores – or GUS for short – went on to become Europe's biggest mail order group.
But in 2006, after 106-years, the company once synonymous with Manchester's mighty home shopping industry disappeared forever.
GUS was founded by Abraham and George Rose in 1900, beginning life as a Manchester based mail order business trading as Universal Stores.
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