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.
Tributes paid to well-known family man and Rangers fanatic George Simpson
dailyrecord.co.ukPerth area, other parts of Scotland - and even as far afield as Spain - were able to pay their last respects by tuning in to the live-streamed service.
In a wide-ranging eulogy, the Rev Alex T Stewart, minister at St John’s Kirk in Perth, paid tribute to George’s “loving and generous spirit”.
He added: “George always went out of his way to help others.“He had a great sense of humour, a wry wit and enjoyed a laugh.” Born in Ayr on October 17, 1947, he moved to Perth with mum and dad, Ann and Adam Simpson, who ran a coal merchant’s business from their home in Dunkeld Road.
He has younger brothers Gordon and Garry while older brother John, who was latterly chief photographer with the Perthshire Advertiser, sadly died in December 2008, shortly.
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