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.
Real dead body ended up as fairground attraction and inspired He-Man's Skeletor
dailystar.co.ukcrook Elmer McCurdy was shot dead by police on an Oklahoma farm, and his showbusiness career began.McCurdy had been tracked down by a posse after pulling off a hold-up that one newspaper mockingly called “one of the smallest in the history of train robbery”.McCurdy and two accomplices had heard that a $400,000 cash payment from the US Government was being sent to the Osage tribe by rail.
That’s something like $12,000,000 (about £8.7 million) in today’s money – enough for McCurdy and his pals to retire on.Unfortunately, the hapless trio stuck up the wrong train and ended up with a paltry haul of $46 in cash, two bottles of whiskey, a pistol, a coat and the train conductor's watch.McCurdy was tracked to an old barn and was killed in a.
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