Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the reformed model of Lynne’s ’70s and ’80s prog-pop outfit Electric Light Orchestra—have cancelled what was slated to be their ultimate present ever. The efficiency had been scheduled for tonight, July 13, to shut out BST Hyde Park’s 2025 summer season live performance sequence. An announcement shared with Pitchfork explains that “Jeff has been battling a systemic infection and is currently in the care of a team of doctors who have advised him that performing is simply not possible time nor will he be able to reschedule.”
“The legacy of the band and his longtime fans are foremost in Jeff’s mind today,” the assertion continues, “and while he is so sorry that he cannot perform, he knows that he must focus on his health and rehabilitation at this time.”
In 2024, Jeff Lynne’s ELO introduced their Over and Out farewell tour of North America, which was subsequently prolonged right into a run of European dates. The band have been additionally compelled to cancel a performance at Manchester’s Co-Op Live final Thursday (July 10) resulting from Lynne’s sickness.
Lynne based the Electric Light Orchestra in 1970 alongside Roy Wood and Bev Bevan. The band launched 4 U.S. platinum information—A New World Record, Out of the Blue, Discovery, and Xanadu—earlier than their breakup in 1986. 2014 noticed the formation of Jeff Lynne’s ELO, who went on to launch two albums underneath the moniker: 2015’s Alone in the Universe and 2019’s From Out of Nowhere. In 2020, Lynne was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
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