He gushed, “And for the record, Liam was in my opinion the most vital part of One Direction. His experience from a young age, his perfect pitch, his stage presence, his gift for writing.

When she was 15, though, she found One Direction on “The X-Factor UK” – five floppy-haired, skinny teenage boys around her age, singing together on her screen. Looking back now, the members ...

Celebrities have flooded social media with tributes for the late One Direction singer Liam Payne ... that Payne died at the age of 31 after falling from his hotel room’s third-story balcony ...

The former One Direction member, who died last week at 31, lived a life defined by the internet and its evolving relationship to fandom.