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.
Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Nearly 60 years on, haunting memories of how the historic Norden village of Greenbooth became submerged under millions of gallons of water have been revealed.
It was flooded in the early 1960s, after four years of construction, to create the last in a series of four reservoirs in the Naden Valley.
Today, Greenbooth Reservoir is an essential part of the beautiful countryside north of Heywood, visited by dog walkers, hikers and nature lovers.
The story of how the Heywood and Middleton Water Board's proposals to flood the Naden Valley in the mid-1950s sounded the death knell for a declining village is well remembered by a handful of eyewitnesses to the times.
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