United Kingdom, April 16 -- The songwriter behind Liam Payne's Live Forever has revealed the track was written about a tragic fall from a hotel balcony.

The Ordinary Boys frontman Samuel Preston, 44, wrote the song about his own brush with death when he took a tumble from the second floor of a hotel in Denmark in 2017 after consuming too much Champagne and he gave the song to Liam, who went on to release it in 2019 - five years before the One Direction star plunged to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina in 2024.

Now Preston has admitted he was stunned by the chilling "circumstances" of Liam's death which mirrored the lyrics he wrote, telling the Guardian newspaper: "[I gave the song to Liam] and then he falls off a balcony and d...