Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) will say farewell next year with a final show at London’s BST Hyde Park.
Festival organizers are calling the 2025 show a “final farewell” for the band, which was founded in Birmingham in 1970 by Lynne and keyboardist Roy Wood.
Tickets for the July 13 show will go on sale Friday.
Richard Tandy had been the band’s bassist but became keyboardist after Wood left, He died earlier this year at the age of 76.
ELO disbanded in 1986, but Lynne reformed the band in 2014 as Jeff Lynne’s ELO.
The group is known for its fusion of classical music, Beatles-style pop and futuristic rock visuals, with hits including Livin’ Thing, Mr Blue Sky and Telephone Line. in the 1970s and 1980s.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
“I started my comeback tour in 2014 in Hyde Park,” said Lynn.
“This seemed like the perfect venue for our final show.
“As the song goes: We’ll do it again.”
ELO’s song One More Time appears on the 2019 album From Out Of Nowhere.
Lynn was named to the Queen’s Birthday Honors List in 2020 for her contribution to music and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.
Jim King, CEO of AEG Presents European Music Festivals, said, “Jeff Lynne’s ELO is loved around the world” and “the live performance is nothing short of extraordinary.”
Mr King added that it would be a “real honor” to host the band’s final show next summer.
The band is currently on a U.S. farewell tour, which is scheduled to end in Inglewood, Calif., on Saturday.
