BST Hyde Park festival has cancelled its music event on July 13 after Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) pulled out of the headline slot. Musician Lynne, 77, who was billed to play on Sunday alongside his rock band, pulled out on the advice of doctors following a “systemic infection”.

Jeff Lynne will no longer be performing his headline show at BST Hyde Park tomorrow night, it has been confirmed. The 77-year-old was due to perform Electric Light Orchestra’s final-ever UK gig on Sunday night.

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”. It comes days before their sold-out headline slot at the London music festival on Sunday, which has been described by the organisers as their final “goodbye”.