Harry Styles Performs Unreleased Song for Liam Payne

Harry Styles performed an unreleased song he said he wrote for Liam Payne at Madison Square Garden on October 16, marking the second anniversary of Payne’s death. Reports identified the song as “What Is Enough.” Styles introduced it during his New York residency, telling the audience he had lost a friend two years earlier and urging people to look after one another. Styles said he had written the song for his friend about two years before the performance. He played it with a guitar. The performance was its first reported public airing, but no announcement established whether the song will be officially released or performed again. The anniversary performance brought together Styles’ onstage reflection and a song he described as written for Payne. Styles and Payne were members of One Direction, alongside Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. The group began an extended hiatus in 2015, and its members went on to pursue solo careers. Payne died aged 31 on October 16, 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentine prosecutors attributed his death to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding, according to reporting on the...