One Direction's Liam Payne was a prolific songwriter and a troubled star. We look back at his musical legacy
ABCSinger Liam Payne, who rose to international stardom with boy band One Direction, has died aged 31 after falling from a third storey balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires. Liam Payne dies aged 31 Photo shows Liam Payne leads into microphone Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, police have confirmed. Loading YouTube content Payne initially was dropped early in the competition but was later put together with fellow teenagers Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik to compete as boy band One Direction. "When you're doing hundreds and hundreds of and it's the same 22 songs at the same time every single day, even if you're not happy, you've got to go out there," Payne contributed significantly to One Direction's songwriting, garnering more than 30 co-writing credits across their five albums.