{"id":375907,"date":"2026-10-17T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:20:07","slug":"harry-styles-debuts-tribute-song-for-liam-payne-at-nyc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375907\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles debuts tribute song for Liam Payne at NYC show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harry Styles has paid tribute to his late One Direction bandmate, Liam Payne, with an unreleased acoustic song.<br \/>The singer debuted the song on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where he is partway through a residency as part of his Together, Together tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sold-out performance came on the second anniversary of Payne&#8217;s death at 31, after he fell from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a clip shared by Billboard, Styles told the packed house, &#8220;Two years ago today, I lost one of those friends. I&#8217;m sure a lot of you have been through similar things. I hope you haven&#8217;t. But really, it&#8217;s just about looking after each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer continued, &#8220;There are so many people who have touched my life in such special ways that I wouldn&#8217;t be here without. I&#8217;m gonna play you a song I wrote for my friend about two years ago, if that&#8217;s all right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After introducing the song as What Is Enough, Styles launched into the melodic tune with lyrics that included, &#8220;I&#8217;m not wise enough\/But I wrote you a letter just to burn it up\/And watch it rise like you&#8217;re in the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Styles and Payne were original members of One Direction from the group&#8217;s start in 2010 through to its end in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles has paid tribute to his late One Direction bandmate, Liam Payne, with an unreleased acoustic song.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-375907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}