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 closing 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 an infection and is at present within the care of a staff of medical doctors who’ve suggested him that performing is just not attainable time nor will he be capable of reschedule.”
“The legacy of the band and his longtime followers are foremost in Jeff’s thoughts right this moment,” the assertion continues, “and whereas he’s so sorry that he can not carry out, he is aware of that he should concentrate on his well being and rehabilitation at the moment.”
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 had been additionally pressured to cancel a performance at Manchester’s Co-Op Stay final Thursday (July 10) on account of Lynne’s sickness.
Lynne based the Electrical Gentle Orchestra in 1970 alongside Roy Wooden and Bev Bevan. The band launched 4 U.S. platinum information—A New World Document, 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).
