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Ross Harris is honoring his cousin Liam Payne with a new song. On Sunday, the musician released \u201cBones,\u201d a track he wrote in tribute to Payne about the difficulties of dealing with grief.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been back and forth about releasing this song a dozen times. It\u2019s the most personal thing I\u2019ve ever written \u2013 which made the idea of releasing it absolutely terrifying,\u201d Harris wrote on Instagram. \u201cAfter my cousin passed on October 16th, writing this song (with the extremely talented Jordan Round) gave me an outlet for my grief.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n He added: \u201cEventually, I knew I had to get it out into the world \u2013 for myself, for Liam and for anyone who\u2019s lost someone.\u201d<\/p>\n Harris said he wanted to release the song as a \u201cnice little birthday present\u201d for Payne, who would\u2019ve turned 32 on Friday, Aug. 29. \u201cI still see us as young boys with the world at our feet trying to figure out how to trick our parents into letting us have a sleepover,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n For the song\u2019s artwork, Harris used a rose that Payne drew himself. In his post, Harris thanked Payne for \u201ctrying to teach me how to scribble a Rose.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis one\u2019s for you, Liam. Even though you\u2019re not here to hear it, maybe you\u2019re listening somewhere,\u201d Harris wrote.<\/p>\n Payne\u2019s girlfriend Kate Cassidy shared Harris\u2019s Instagram post <\/a>about the \u201cbeautiful song,\u201d and said she was so proud of Harris for releasing it. \u201cI just know Liam would LOVE this song,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe\u2019s singing it from up there in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n Cassidy also shared a touching<\/a> letter<\/a> to Payne on Friday, which would\u2019ve been his birthday. \u201cIn your 31 years here on this earth, you brought so much joy, happiness and hope to so many- especially to me. I hope you know how brightly you still shine, even from up there,\u201d Cassidy wrote. \u201cI would give up years of my life just to give you a few more. I miss making memories with you. I miss having things to look forward to together.\u201d<\/p>\n Payne died on Oct. 16, 2024, after falling from the balcony of a hotel room in Buenos Aires.\u00a0Netflix recently\u00a0released\u00a0Building the Band<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0in which Liam served as a mentor for new groups in formation. He was honored on the show.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ross Harris is honoring his cousin Liam Payne with a new song. On Sunday, the musician released \u201cBones,\u201d a track he wrote in tribute to Payne about the difficulties of dealing with grief. \u201cI\u2019ve been back and forth about releasing this song a dozen times. It\u2019s the most personal thing I\u2019ve ever written \u2013 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1991877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[349274,358153,360085],"class_list":["post-1991876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dealing-with-grief","tag-liam-payne","tag-ross-harris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Liam-Paynes-Cousin-Ross-Harris-Honors-Late-Singer-With-Emotional.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}