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.
Woodstock ’99 documentary: Riots, arson, abuse and the ‘best’ time of their lives
nypost.comoriginal Woodstock founder Michael Lang and his partners attempted to re-create the magic. Instead, Woodstock ’99 devolved into a catastrophe of arson, riots and sexual assault as over 200,000people descended on Rome, NY over the course of three days.
Attendees torched audio towers and gas-filled trucks and cars; someone drove a van into the crowd at a packed rave hall; and garbage and debris were pelted at the main stage.
New York state troopers and other law enforcement were eventually called in to quell the riot with force.In the end, three people died — the same number, it should be noted, as at the original — dozens were arrested and more than 1,000 people required medical services.
There were also numerous accounts of sexual assaults. Now, a new three-part Netflix docuseries, “Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99,” premiering Aug.
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