17 Oct 2024

Remembering popstar Liam Payne

From Nights, 9:55 pm on 17 October 2024

British musician Liam Payne fell three storeys from a hotel in Buenos Aires and was found dead at the scene.

Shooting to global super stardom as a member of pop band One Direction at the age of fourteen, he was only thirty-one when he died.

RNZ's digital entertainment journalist Jogai Bhatt joins Emile Donovan.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 04: Recording artist Liam Payne of music group One Direction performs onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM?s Jingle Ball 2015 Presented by Capital One at STAPLES CENTER on December 4, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.   Christopher Polk/Getty Images for iHeartMedia/AFP (Photo by Christopher Polk / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Recording artist Liam Payne of music group One Direction performs onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM?s Jingle Ball 2015 Presented by Capital One at STAPLES CENTER on December 4, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Christopher Polk / Getty Images via AFP