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.
Back in 1974, Hollywood Reporter columnist Sue Cameron reported that Mama Cass of the 1960s group the Mamas & the Papas died after choking on a ham sandwich.
Now, the writer and friend of the late singer says the “ham sandwich” part of the story wasn’t true and despite debunking the story, it endures.
On July 29, 1974, singer Cass Elliot died in London. She was 32. Upon hearing the news, Cameron called the London phone number she had for her friend. “Her manager Allan Carr picked up the phone and he was hysterical.
Allan said, ‘You’ve got to tell them that she died choking on a ham sandwich. You must go to your typewriter and write that.
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