Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the reformed model of Lynne’s ’70s and ’80s prog-pop outfit Electrical Gentle Orchestra—have cancelled what was slated to be their last present ever. The efficiency had been scheduled for tonight, July 13, to shut out BST Hyde Park’s 2025 summer time live performance sequence. A press release shared with Pitchfork explains that “Jeff has been battling a systemic an infection and is at the moment within the care of a group of medical doctors who’ve suggested him that performing is just not doable time nor will he be capable to reschedule.”
“The legacy of the band and his longtime followers are foremost in Jeff’s thoughts immediately,” the assertion continues, “and whereas he’s so sorry that he can not carry out, he is aware of that he should deal with his well being and rehabilitation right now.”
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 compelled to cancel a efficiency at Manchester’s Co-Op Dwell final Thursday (July 10) resulting from 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 File, 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 below the moniker: 2015’s Alone within the Universe and 2019’s From Out of Nowhere. In 2020, Lynne was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
