Nicola Payne wrote on Instagram, "When I saw the news pop up on my phone that you had left us I went cold, I wanted so much for this to be untrue. ... You were truly too good for this earth, you are an angel who just lived for making people smile and happy."
Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen has remarked on Liam's death at age 31 as just another example of how the music business is, as he puts it, "a death cult." He tells The Telegraph, "That's not an unusual thing in my business. It's a normal thing."
Liam died Oct. 16 after falling off a hotel balcony in Argentina.