{"id":657806,"date":"2026-10-17T19:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/657806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:46:11","slug":"harry-styles-performs-new-song-in-memory-of-former-bandmate-liam-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/657806\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles performs new song in memory of former bandmate Liam Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HandsomeStyles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Handsome Styles<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>SINGER HARRY STYLES has shared a song he penned to remember his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne.<\/p>\n<p>The British musician played the track \u2018What Is Enough\u2019 during his sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden on the second anniversary of Payne\u2019s death on 16 October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/liam-payne-has-died-aged-31-6517145-Oct2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payne died two years ago after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a>. He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics go:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you what it\u2019s like<br \/>To bury friends on Wednesday nights<br \/>Gather in a garden \u2019round a fire<\/p>\n<p>You dance until you\u2019re tired<br \/>No you don\u2019t, now you never will<br \/>Will You?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Styles is currently performing at the New York venue as part of a residency on Together, Together tour.<\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to Styles\u2019s new song on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DelIhEyoYwP\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, describing it as \u201cbeautiful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One person wrote: \u201csuch a beautiful and emotionally tragic song\u201d, while another said: \u201cI\u2019ve been awake for three minutes and I\u2019m already crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Styles launched his solo career in 2017 after becoming a global star in the boy band One Direction.<\/p>\n<p>Style\u2019s first album and single were both UK number ones, while his record Harry\u2019s House won a Grammy and a Brit Award after its release in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The band first rose to fame on the UK talent show The X Factor in 2010. Styles and Payne sang alongside Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan.<\/p>\n<p>The band went on to become one of the biggest pop groups in the world with five albums and four world tours. They went on indefinite hiatus in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Payne released his debut solo album LP1 in December 2019, which included the singles Polaroid and Familiar.<\/p>\n<p>He and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl share a son Bear, born in 2017, having been in a high-profile relationship between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Handsome Styles \/ YouTube SINGER HARRY STYLES has shared a song he penned to remember his former One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,6437,61,60,34427,278430],"class_list":["post-657806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-styles","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-payne","tag-what-is-enough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}