Jeff Lynne ’s Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO) have cancelled their planned farewell performance on Sunday (13 July) at BST Hyde Park, the band have confirmed. The rock band, best known for their hit song “Mr Blue Sky”, was due to perform on Thursday night (10 July) at Manchester’s Co-Op Live but cancelled at the last minute due to “illness”.

Which means, per Consequence, that ELO actually had its final show back on Wednesday, at a Manchester show that the 77-year-old Lynne apparently “struggled to get through.” A statement provided to press said that Lynne “is currently in the care of a team of doctors who have advised him that performing is simply not possible at this time nor will he be able to reschedule.

A two-week-long music festival in central London has cancelled its final night on Sunday after Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra pulled out of the headline slot.