LONDON (AP) — A two-week-long music festival in central London has cancelled its final night after Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra pulled out of the headline slot on Sunday. Lynne, 77, who was billed to play alongside his band Sunday at the The BST Hyde Park festival, withdrew on Saturday on the advice of doctors as a result of what …
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BST Hyde Park cancels final day after Jeff Lynne’s ELO pulls out
Fans of Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) will have been left disappointed after finding out they won’t get to sing along to Mr Blue Sky below a blue summer sky. BST Hyde Park has cancelled the final day of its festival after Lynne, 77, withdrew from the band’s headline slot at the last minute due to health concerns. He …
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Jeff Lynne has been forced to cancel the final Electric Light Orchestra show at BST Hyde Park due to “a systemic infection”. The band were due to play the closing show of their ‘Over And Out’ farewell tour at the London event on Sunday night (July 13), the final scheduled concert of the group’s long career. However, on Saturday, it …
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