Jeff Lynne’s ELO Plot 2025 Farewell Concert
After a 55-year career with the Electric Light Orchestra and its various iterations, founding member Jeff Lynne has announced the final staging of his own Jeff Lynne’s ELO. Set to take place in London’s Hyde Park on July 13, 2025, the farewell concert will arrive as part of BST Summertime, with additional performers to be released soon. The midsummer affair will also mark the concluding date of the Over and Out Tour, which wraps up this week.
While Electric Light Orchestra originally disbanded in 1986 after over 15 years together, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan returned to the band for a second wind in the 2000s, following Lynne’s time with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison in the supergroup Traveling Wilburys. Though Lynne is the sole original member in the latest iteration, the farewell staging will honor the band’s Birmingham origins by returning to England for its last hurrah.
Also, as he initially returned to the stage as Jeff Lynne’s ELO in 2014 with a show at Hyde Park, Lynne explained that it felt “the perfect place” to perform the last show. “Hosting their final performance at BST Hyde Park is a true honor,” said Jim King, CEO of European Festivals at AEG Presents, “especially 30 years after their first festival show in the same park. We’re excited to be part of this special moment in music history.” “As the song goes,” Lynne joked via social media, “we’re gonna do it One More Time!’” alluding to the 2019 track.
Tickets for the farewell concert wil go on sale for the general public on Oct. 25 at 9:00 a.m. GMT. In the meantime, fans can catch Jeff Lynne’s ELO on tour tonight, Oct. 23, at Sacramento, Calif.’s Golden 1 Center, at the Kia Forum on Oct. 25 or 26, as well as Phoenix’s Footprint Center on Oct. 29. Fans can read on for a list of upcoming tour dates, with tickets and more information available at https://www.jefflynneselo.com/.
Upcoming Jeff Lynne’s ELO Tour Dates
10/23 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, Calif.
10/25 – The Kia Forum – Inglewood, Calif.
10/26 – The Kia Forum – Inglewood, Calif.
10/29 – Footprint Center – Phoenix
7/13/2025 – Hyde Park – London