{"id":10349,"date":"2024-11-18T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T08:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2024-11-18T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T08:11:31","slug":"luke-hemmings-dedicates-festival-set-to-old-friend-liam-payne-wouldnt-be-here-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=10349","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hemmings Dedicates Festival Set to \u2018Old Friend\u2019 Liam Payne: \u2018Wouldn\u2019t Be Here Without Him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/J9UUcIvD11qbqCdW4gLcug--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0yNDAw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us_magazine_896\/11ce0ed4f1673e85475f554ab0ac7134\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">5 Seconds of Summer frontman\u00a0<strong>Luke Hemmings<\/strong>\u00a0will never forget his friendship with the late\u00a0<strong>Liam Payne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cI want to dedicate this last song to an old friend, Liam Payne,\u201d Hemmings, 28, said during his set at the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City on Saturday, November 16, per social media\u00a0footage. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here without him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">He added, \u201cSing your hearts out, thank you very much. Mexico City, we love you, alright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Hemmings then launched into\u00a0an emotional rendition\u00a0of his solo track \u201cStarting Line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Inside Liam Payne\u2019s Final Days: Remembering the One Direction Singer\u2019s Life and Legacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Hemmings\u2019 bond with Payne, who died last month at age 31, goes back to 2013. At the time, Payne\u2019s One Direction band enlisted 5 Seconds of Summer to open for\u00a0their\u00a0<i>Take Me Home Tour\u00a0<\/i>across the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Payne was one-fifth of 1D, alongside\u00a0<strong>Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Zayn Malik<\/strong>. Hemmings, in addition to his solo music, performs in 5SOS with bandmates\u00a0<strong>Ashton Irwin, Michael Clifford<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Calum Hood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\"><i>Us Weekly\u00a0<\/i>confirmed on October 16 that Payne\u00a0suffered a fatal fall from a third-story hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An autopsy confirmed that the \u201cTeardrops\u201d singer died from \u201cmultiple injuries involving \u2018internal and external hemorrhage\u2019\u201d and had various drugs in his system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The 5SOS performers were\u00a0among the stars to pay tribute\u00a0to Payne\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/kyDWduakbuRDG8cC5fDj1Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTE3MDc-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us_magazine_896\/b412a3cdc9cec4f95b7413175ef484e1\" alt=\"5 Seconds of Summer s Luke Hemmings Dedicates Festival Set to Liam Payne Says I Wouldn t Be Here Without Him 020\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 line-clamp-2 pr-2.5\">\n<div>5 Seconds of Summer s Luke Hemmings Dedicates Festival Set to Liam Payne Says I Wouldn t Be Here Without Him 020<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"mt-1 rapid-noclick-resp bg-white text-sm text-scooter dark:bg-inkwell dark:text-[color:var(--link-color)] ml-2 absolute bottom-0 right-0 before:content-['...']\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ylk=\"elm:loadmore;itc:1;sec:content-canvas;slk:more;\" data-rapid_p=\"31\">More<\/button><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWe are heartbroken. We love you, Liam, and we will never forget the influence you had on our lives,\u201d the Australian rock band wrote in a social media tribute. \u201cYou truly believed in us and for that we are forever grateful. We don\u2019t know if we thanked you enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">They added, \u201cThere was such a bright light in you, we always saw that. We are sad, devastated that this world put that light out. We hope you\u2019ll always be singing up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">All of One Direction\u2019s Most Heartbreaking Tributes to Liam Payne After His Death<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Payne is survived by his parents, his two older sisters and his 7-year-old son, whom he shared with ex\u00a0<strong>Cheryl Cole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWe are heartbroken. Liam will forever live in our hearts and we\u2019ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul,\u201d\u00a0his family said in a statement\u00a0last month. \u201cWe are supporting each other the best we can as a family and ask for privacy and space at this awful time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Three weeks after Payne\u2019s death,\u00a0his remains were flown back\u00a0to his native U.K. upon the conclusion of\u00a0an investigation. Payne\u2019s loved ones will have a chance to say their goodbyes and pay their final respects in a funeral service, of which details have not been publicly shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Seconds of Summer frontman\u00a0Luke Hemmings\u00a0will never forget his friendship with the late\u00a0Liam Payne. \u201cI want to dedicate this last song to an old friend, Liam Payne,\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luke Hemmings Dedicates Festival Set to \u2018Old Friend\u2019 Liam Payne: \u2018Wouldn\u2019t Be Here Without Him\u2019 - 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