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It's been a very emotional 24 hours for music fans as tributes continue to flow for Liam Payne, following news of his death in Argentina yesterday.

Rita Ora broke down on stage in Japan just hours after the news of Liam's passing broke while performing her hit For You, which of course features the former One Direction member.

No doubt there will be a lot more of that happening at other gigs around the world.

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Liam Payne and Rita Ora

Liam Payne and Rita Ora worked together on her song For You. Instagram/RitaOra

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Meantime, the final leg of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour kicks off today in Miami, Florida.

She has said she'll have a special moment in the show to remember Liam, they formed a pretty strong friendship over the years.

There is no official word from any of the other One Direction boys just yet, but obviously they are all shattered.

Also in entertainment news, Netflix has given us our first look at the new Elvis Presley documentary, which is set around his 1968 comeback special, which at the time was a make or break affair.

It features interviews with Priscilla Presley, Baz Luhrmann, Bruce Springsteen and many others and it looks great.

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It's called Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley and will be on Netflix on November 13.

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And today is the day that Kylie Minogue drops her new album, Tension II.

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There are high expectations here and Kylie told Today it really is "like a sequel" to thee previous album, Tension, which brought us the Gammy-winning Padam Padam.

"There's the collaborations that have already been released, they're all on Tension II, plus nine new songs," she said.

"I think we just kept writing and recording and decided months ago now that it's too hard to choose three extra songs and do a reboot of the first album, so it was shaping up to feel like a sequel and that's what we have."

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