BST Hyde Park cancels remaining day after Jeff Lynne’s ELO pulls out

Followers of Jeff Lynne’s Electrical Mild Orchestra (ELO) can have been left upset after discovering out they will not get to sing alongside to Mr Blue Sky under a blue summer time sky.

BST Hyde Park has cancelled the ultimate day of its competition after Lynne, 77, withdrew from the band’s headline slot on the final minute as a consequence of well being considerations.

He had been as a consequence of entrance the rock band on Sunday, however stepped again on the recommendation of his docs following a “systemic an infection”, in keeping with an announcement launched by ELO.

The choice comes simply days after the band pulled out of a gig at Manchester’s Co-Op Stay enviornment for the same motive.

Final yr, Lynne hinted that the BST Hyde Park look might have been ELO’s final ever efficiency, saying: “It looks as if the proper place to do our remaining present.”

Lynne was “heartbroken” to not be peforming, the band mentioned, and was “at the moment within the care of a crew of docs who’ve suggested him that performing is solely not doable presently, 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 – and whereas he’s so sorry that he can’t carry out, he is aware of that he should deal with his well being and rehabilitation presently,” it added.

BST mentioned ticketholders will probably be refunded and contacted straight by their ticketing agent.

The frontman lived as much as one of many band’s hit songs – Do not Deliver Me Down – when he soldiered by way of a efficiency at Birmingham’s Utilita Area earlier this month after being injured in a taxi crash.

However the band axed its 10 July present in Manchester simply earlier than they have been as a consequence of go on “as a consequence of sickness”.

Lynne – a singer, multi-instrumentalist and report producer – fashioned ELO in Birmingham in 1970 with Roy Wooden and Bev Bevan.

The band is understood for fusing musical genres – from classical music to trendy pop and rock – in addition to incorporating a variety of devices into its songs.

Its different hits which have stood the take a look at of time embody Livin’ Factor, Phone Line and Evil Girl.

ELO first break up in 1986, however Lynne introduced it again in 2014. On 14 September that yr, he teamed up with the BBC Live performance Orchestra to play a number of the band’s best hits at a comeback live performance at BST Hyde Park.

ELO was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2017, two years after Lynne acquired a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.

He was made an OBE within the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours record for providers to music.