Uproxx

Liam Payne’s Most Essential Songs With One Direction

One Direction mattered. They mattered to millions of fans who bought their albums, memorized their lyrics, and attended their concerts. And because One Direction mattered, Liam Payne mattered. Liam — ...
Forbes

Liam Payne’s Passing Pushes One Of One Direction’s Biggest Singles To A New Peak

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11 Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Harry Styles of One Direction attends the BBC Music Awards at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre on December 11, ...
Click2Houston

One Direction was the internet's first boy band, and Liam Payne its grounding force

Liam Payne's voice is the first one heard in the culture-shifting boy band One Direction's debut single: “What Makes You Beautiful” launches into a bouncy guitar riff, a cheeky and borderline ...
Rolling Stone

The Untamed Heart of Liam Payne

The first night Liam Payne ever did a headlining solo show, the first One Direction song he sang was a deep cut: “History.” It’s not the most famous 1D song, but it’s one of their most direct ...
Page Six

I had a front-row seat to One Direction’s rise to fame — here’s how drugs, girls and stress tore them apart

One Direction found fame inside a nondescript North London TV studio, next to a McDonald’s and opposite a kebab shop — and I had a front row seat for the making of the world’s biggest boy band. Harry ...
Rolling Stone

Liam Payne’s Death Shocked the World. Directioners Are at a Loss

Outside of the CasaSur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a makeshift memorial filled with letters, flowers, and candles has been growing since the untimely death of Liam Payne, who rose to ...
Us Weekly

Remember When One Direction Released ‘Four’ — Their Final Album With Zayn Malik?

Fans didn’t know it, but One Direction released their last album with all five members in November 2014. With the record, tilted Four — a possible foreshadowing of what was to come — Harry Styles, ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Hey man, are you good?’: Inside Liam Payne’s troubled life after One Direction

AJ McLean had reason to be concerned about Liam Payne. Since production wrapped on the new Netflix music competition series where they’d met earlier this year, the Backstreet Boys veteran and One ...
American Songwriter

The Best Solo Song By All 5 Former One Direction Members

One Direction delighted fans with hit after hit. Even after members Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Zayn Malik disbanded, they continued on that trajectory with their solo ...
Salon

The tragedy of Liam Payne: A One Direction pop star life lived in spectacle

Every member of One Direction had a role. Harry Styles was the cheeky one. Zayn Malik, the mysterious one. Niall Horan was the nice, Irish lad. Louis Tomlinson was the class clown. Leaving Liam Payne ...
NJ.com

Is One Direction reuniting at the BRIT Awards?

One Direction fans have speculated that the group will reunite at the BRIT awards for a tribute performance to their late bandmate Liam Payne, but is there any truth to the rumors? According to the ...