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.
Manchester's lost TV show that was like 'Big Brother's older brother'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt's been nearly 30 years since the nation caught a glimpse into the lives of six students living in Manchester. Before reality TV shows and fly-on-the-wall series' that we know today, The Living Soap aired on BBC2 in 1993.
Produced by Spencer Campbell, known for producing the likes of Cold Feet, it followed the lives of a group of students living and studying in Manchester.
That year, the six housemates signed up to be filmed on campus, out in the city's nightlife scene, at their shared home and more in exchange for a year of free rent and being in the public eye.
All participants were strangers, with their ages, backgrounds and course of study being completely different to those who they shared a living space with. Read More: Wall's Ice Cream and a dog called Judy: Manchester's Whit Walks of the 1960s Like many shows we watch today, the programme only featured a fraction of the lives of the students, with hours of footage being edited down to minutes.
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