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Liam Payne: Has the music industry let young pop stars down?

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Sharon Osbourne said Liam Payne was "just a kid" when he found fame on The X Factor .

Bruce Springsteen said young people don't have the inner facility or the inner self yet to be able to protect themselves from a lot of the things that come with success and fame.

Robbie Williams' frequent collaborator Guy Chambers said the industry should hold back from working with performers who are under 18 .

Waissel called the music industry "very manipulative, coercive and deconstructive" Matt Thomas said he had seen "massive changes" in recent years .

More support is now out there, but not everybody knows where to find it, he said.

He backed Chambers ' suggestion that under-18s should be given much more protection.