Liam Payne Funeral

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Read online that Liam Payne’s funeral could be as big as Princess Diana’s - not sure how true this is.

Don’t get me wrong I think it’ll be a large public gathering for sure…. Unless the family decide to have a more private service unannounced with just family and friends etc..

What's different now and for the near future is that even 'yesterdays' celebs like Liam were very much still in their fans lives through social media.

His management posted on Snapchat less than an hour before his death!

He had 30m followers on x even though he didn't really use it.

I don't know how many he had on instagram/ Snapchat/ TikTok but it was surely millions.

Also 1D were a global band that the uk hasn't seen since the Beatles. I didn't realise quite how globally successful they were.

They were also expected to reunite some day and do stadium tours again so he wasn't just a star of the past, his fans expected to see him play again.

There are vigils to him across Asia, America, South & Central America & Europe.

What other UK 31 year old would have that?

Thank you, I appreciate your kindness.

Because, the point people are making is that everyone knew who Diana was. That's how famous she was. They are saying tyey didn't know who Liam Payne was to highlight the fact that it is highly unlikely he will have a funeral.larger than Diana had purely because he was no where near as well known. A majority of people even in this country would.have struggled to place the name before he died.

They haven't done anything as a band since 2015 so hardly unavoidable for the last 15 years.

Nobody is trying to.provoke anyone. The fact is, as a band they have done nothing since 2016. People will know who 1D are but not necessarily the names of the individual members. In my office out of 11 people only 5 knew immediately when he was by name. Age range from.early 20s to late 60s

My heart goes out to you and your family

Minor?

You do realise he was part of the biggest selling band on the planet at one stage?

They were the first U.K. group to debut at number 1 with their debut album in the US, the biggest music market in the world - not even the Beatles managed that. They've sold over 70 million records. Highest following on Twitter ever for a band. Hardly minor.

This. Please just stop

@FianoMis I am sorry for your loss. And I admire your dignity.

As the biggest boyband (and musical act, along with Bieber) of their era they obviously weren't minor, however that US chart record is skewed as it's much easier to chart at 1 now. Sell 120k there and you are number 1. The downloads (as opposed to physical purchases) have also cheapened the charts.

It was next to impossible to go straight in at 1 in the US in the 60s (the first to do it was Elton John in the mid 70s). Charts then (and right up to the early 90s) largely saw singles and albums climb up the charts. The watering down of the charts has seen the reverse happen, as your highest position is now usually what your song/album debuted at, and it then falls down the charts.

"Global band the UK hasn't seen since The Beatles"? Behave.

Led Zeppelin, the biggest band of the 70s, multiple diamond selling albums with over 200 million records sold. They also broke The Beatles outdoor attendance record, and broke the Guinness book of Records ticket demand for their one off reunion performance at the 02 in 2009.

Queen, over 300 million records sold, the band with more global songs (4) than any other act (Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, and Another One Bites the Dust), the first act to play outdoor stadiums in South America, the act who stole the show infront of a global audience (the first concert screened globally) at Live Aid.

The Rolling Stones, seven decades at the top, over 200 million records sold, highest grossing concert tour three times. The only band on the planet that eclipses their status and impact is The Beatles.

Pink Floyd, over 250 million records sold, an album (Dark Side of the Moon) that has spent more weeks on the US album chart than any other (almost 1000 weeks). A reunion (won't happen) would also smash ticket demand records.

I could name at least 20 UK bands who dwarf One Direction in size. And One Direction are not a band, they are a boyband (a vocal group). An act they are to be compared to is the Spice Girls (and with respect to 1D they were not on the scale of the Spice Girls and the girl power phenomenon...only Princess Diana challenged the Spice Girls over who featured on front page newspaper covers).

Yes 1D were a global act, but the UK has had many many global bands (and bands in the truest sense of the word), who were much bigger, than 1D.

Does it matter how famous Liam Payne was? He’s dead. It’s not always necessary to prove yourself right.

It does matter as that was the actual point of the thread, to say that he was so famous that his funeral would rival Diana's. People are just pointing out why that is completely ridiculous. If it had been a thread saying how sad it is that the guy had died then yes, of course it would be inappropriate and irrelevant to debate how famous or otherwise he was.

Will William and Harry be walking along behind?

Yes I see that (and agree it’s a preposterous suggestion) but it’s just a bit unseemly and unnecessary to go to great length to prove that he wasn’t THAT famous.

‘OP, that’s daft’, is enough to say, in my opinion. Otherwise it feels a bit like slagging off a bloke who’s barely cold.

@Drinkdrinkduuurink none of them achieved that by the age of 25.

It's like judging take that in 2005 instead of now.

It's not "judging", this thread is not about a contest between artists and how well they have done or might have done. It's not about whether Liam Payne would have gone on to become very famous, at the level of Pink Floyd etc, maybe he would, who knows, all kinds of things happen. People are just saying that he wasn't that level of famous when he sadly died. Saying that he wasn't (yet, at any rate) as famous as The Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd isn't a slight on his worth or talent, it's just a fact.

The thread is literally about how famous he was.

You know what I just discovered? He wrote most of 1D’s songs. Along with others but still I thought all of the songs were written for them. Why don’t people concentrate on good stuff he did do?

Because the thread isn't about good stuff he did or didn't do. It's about whether he was famous enough to have a funeral rivalling Diana. Which he and pretty much everyone on the planet, incluing people who have done staggering amounts of good stuff, weren't and aren't.

actually hundreds of thousands fans loved liam so to say they are ghouls is unfair and judgemental they are mourning his death too. Condolences to his family and close friends at such a terrible time.