LONDON (AP) — A two-week-long music pageant in central London has cancelled its last evening after Jeff Lynne’s Electrical Mild Orchestra pulled out of the headline slot on Sunday.
Lynne, 77, who was billed to play alongside his band Sunday on the The BST Hyde Park pageant, withdrew on Saturday on the recommendation of docs on account of what was termed a “systemic an infection.”
In a press release, the pageant organizers mentioned the occasion will “sadly be cancelled” and that ticket holders shall be refunded and contacted immediately by their ticket agent with additional particulars.
Stevie Surprise shall be taking to the London stage on Saturday night in what is going to now be the pageant’s last occasion of 2025. This yr’s pageant, which began on June 27, hosted the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Van Morrison and Neil Younger.
U.S. rock band The Doobie Brothers and Steve Winwood had been amongst these slated to carry out on Sunday forward of ELO’s headline efficiency.
In an earlier assertion, BST mentioned Lynne was “heartbroken” to report that he couldn’t carry out.
“Jeff has been battling a systemic an infection and is at the moment within the care of a group of docs who’ve suggested him that performing is solely not potential right now nor will he be capable of reschedule,” the assertion learn.
“The legacy of the band and his longtime followers are foremost in Jeff’s thoughts at this time — and whereas he’s so sorry that he can not carry out, he is aware of that he should give attention to his well being and rehabilitation right now,” it added.
It comes after the band, finest identified for “Mr Blue Sky,” pulled out of a efficiency at Manchester’s Co-Op Dwell on July 10.
The band was fashioned in Birmingham in 1970 by Lynne, multi-instrumentalist Roy Wooden and drummer Bev Bevan, and first break up in 1986. ELO are identified for fusing classical music, Beatles-style pop and futuristic rock visuals, and had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2017.
Lynne resurrected the band in 2014.
