Harry Styles performs song for Liam Payne at MSG

Harry Styles performed a song he said he wrote for Liam Payne at Madison Square Garden on October 16, marking the second anniversary of Payne’s death. Styles introduced the song during his New York residency, telling the audience that he had lost a friend two years earlier. Concert reports identified the song as “What Is Enough.” Styles said he felt fortunate to perform at the venue and credited people in his life with helping him get there. He told the crowd he hoped they would look after one another, then said he was going to play a song he had written for his friend about two years earlier. He performed it with guitar. The reports did not establish whether “What Is Enough” is the song’s official title. Payne, a former One Direction bandmate of Styles, died aged 31 on October 16, 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. Argentine prosecutors attributed his death to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding, according to one report. The concert performance came on the anniversary of Payne’s death, and the accounts of Styles’s remarks all stemmed from his speech at the show. Styles’s words described the song as one written for his friend; the reports...