Bruce Springsteen says music industry puts “enormous pressures on young people” following Liam Payne’s death

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Liam Payne‘s death, Bruce Springsteen has shared his thoughts about the pressures young people in the music industry face.Payne passed away earlier this week at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Since his untimely death, many have laid blame on the music industry, with Sharon Osbourne recently saying it had let him down. “Where was this industry when you needed them?” she said. “You were just a kid when you entered one of the toughest industries in the world.

Who was in your corner?”Her comments followed a statement from Katie Waissel, who competed alongside One Direction on the X Factor, and called for more “care and support for young artists”.

Similarly, Rebecca Ferguson, who finished in second place in the same season of the show, paid tribute to Payne while also speaking out against the “exploitation and profiteering of young stars.”Now, Springsteen has shared his thoughts with The Telegraph, saying artists dying young is “not an unusual thing” in his experiences of the industry.“It’s a normal thing,” he said. “It’s a business that puts enormous pressures on young people.