Bruce Springsteen has spoken out following the tragic death of One Direction member Liam Payne.
The 31-year-old singer tragically died on October 16 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the Hotel CasaSur in Argentina.
The star had already been in the South American country for a few days enjoying some quality time with his loved ones, including his former band member Niall Horan, before the incident took place.
Emergency responders arrived at the scene, with Buenos Aires's SAME emergency medical service, Alberto Crescenti, telling a local television station that Payne had suffered "very serious injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall" and there was "no possibility of resuscitation."
In the wake of the tragedy, tributes have been pouring in for the star as the entire world mourns the loss of an incredible talent taken too soon.
Legendary rocker Springsteen recently spoke out about Payne, emphasizing the stress put on young people in the music industry, stating that artists dying young is "not an unusual thing in my business."
"It’s a normal thing," he continued in a new interview with The Telegraph. "It’s a business that puts enormous pressures on young people. Young people don’t have the inner facility or the inner self yet to be able to protect themselves from a lot of the things that come with success and fame.
"So they get lost in a lot of the difficult and often pain-inducing [things]... whether it’s drugs or alcohol to take some of that pressure off," he added.
The rock star went on to describe the addiction in the industry as a "death cult" before adding: "It’s a grift, man. That’s a part of the story that suckers some young people in, you know, but it’s that old story.
"Dying young - good for the record company, but what’s in it for you?" he concluded.
Springsteen has previously been open about his own dark days in his 2016 autobiography Born to Run in which he described his battle with the "big black sea" of depression.
“It's darker, getting darker," he wrote in one passage of the poetic autobiography. "There’s been an event and my depression is spewing like an oil spill all over my carefully planned and controlled existence. Its black sludge is threatening to smother every last living part of me.
He went on to state that his manager, Jon Landau, advised him to get professional help.
"'You need professional help,'" he recalled him saying. "At my request he makes a call I get a number and two days later I drive fifteen minutes west to an office in a suburb of Los Angeles. I walk in: look into the eyes of a kindly, white-haired moustached complete stranger, sit down, and burst into tears."
The news comes shortly after it was announced that an investigation would be being launched into the events surrounding Payne's death - although, authorities have ruled out third-party involvement at this time.
Our thoughts are with the star's family during this difficult time.
