2024-10-19 12:02:00
Vigil in his hometown, memorial at the site of the accident: the mourning for Payne of One Direction is still great. A well-known music star criticizes conditions in the industry.
London/Buenos Aires/New York.
After the death of British musician Liam Payne, his relatives are sharing their grief with fans. Both in Buenos Aires, where the singer died on Wednesday, and in London, the former member of the boy band One Direction was commemorated with posters and candles. In Payne’s English hometown of Wolverhampton, there was a vigil at his former school.
The musician fell from the third floor of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday at the age of 31 and died.
The fans protect the father
Payne’s father, Geoff, went to the site where his son died. The newspaper “Clarín” reported that he collected the singer’s personal belongings there. Geoff Payne also visited a memorial not far from the hotel where mourning fans had left flowers and letters.
“Clarín” wrote about emotional moments. The father took time to read the messages and thanked the fans. According to the report, they formed a sort of barrier with their bodies to prevent the cameras from getting close to the man.
Comment from his girlfriend and ex-partner on Instagram
Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy was desperate. “I’m completely at a loss. Nothing in the last few days has felt real,” Cassidy wrote on Instagram. “Liam, my angel. You are everything. I want you to know that I loved you unconditionally and completely. I will love you for the rest of my life.”
The band One Direction has enjoyed great international success for several years since its formation on the casting show “The X Factor” in 2010. In 2016 the musicians suspended their collaboration which has never been resumed.
British music producer Simon Cowell, who discovered Payne on “X Factor,” wrote on Instagram: “Every tear I shed is a memory of you.” Payne’s seven-year-old son, Bear, will be “so proud of everything you’ve achieved and how you achieved it.”
Bear’s mother is British singer Cheryl Cole, who dated Payne for several years. His death was “overwhelming” for her and she was going through an “indescribably painful time,” Cole wrote on Instragam and also posted a photo of Payne with her son as a baby. He asked people to respect Payne’s dignity in reporting Payne’s death. Cole was a member of the girl group Girls Aloud in the 2000s.
Springsteen criticizes industry pressures
US rock star Bruce Springsteen has criticized the “enormous pressure” placed on artists in the music industry. “Young people don’t have the inner strength or inner self to protect themselves from a lot of the things that come with success and fame,” Springsteen told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper. “So they get lost in a lot of difficult and often painful things (…), whether it’s drugs or alcohol, to relieve that pressure.”
Payne has spoken openly about problems with alcohol in the past. Argentine investigators are investigating evidence of drug and alcohol use before the fatal crash. (dpa)
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