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The same year his showman's instincts saw him swim two miles down the River Thames to highlight opposition to Margaret Thatcher's government policy of dumping nuclear waste at sea.

“It’s bombing out hundreds of miles west of the shoreline.”

In 2020, he drove his Honda Civic 2,000 miles east, sleeping in rest stops and “playing random bars in the middle of the pandemic,” he says.

The porousness of the border is apparent about 20 miles down the road, at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing, uniting Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey - the busiest such border in Europe.

The private service at a church in Amersham, England, about 25 miles northwest of London, was attended by Mr. Payne’s former bandmates in One Direction, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik.