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Jeff Lynne's ELO announce more final ever dates

The Electric Orchestra have scheduled two more UK shows in addition to their final Hyde Park blow-out

Louder

London music festival line-ups 2025: All Points East, Mighty Hoopla, BST and more announce acts

Pop festival Mighty Hoopla in Brixton is also among events to have started announcing acts for 2025

Evening Standard

Jeff Lynne’s ELO announce farewell show in London

Final show at Hyde Park next July will be ‘special night in London with our UK fans’

The Guardian - UK

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Jeff Lynne's ELO announce final ever show

The Electric Light Orchestra are about to switch themselves off

Louder

ELO announce final gig at London’s Hyde Park: How to get tickets

‘Mr Blue Sky’ band are currently undertaking a last tour of the US

The Independent UK

How to get tickets for Electric Light Orchestra final concert at London's Hyde Park

ELO’s co-founder Jeff Lynne says London ‘seems like the perfect place to do our final show’

Evening Standard

Strictly Come Dancing: week five results – as it happened

Montell Douglas and Jamie Borthwick jointly topped the scores, while Paul Merson finished bottom. But who would become the fourth celebrity sent home?

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The 20 most underrated albums ranked, from Swamp Dogg’s Rat On! to Kirsty McColl’s Kite

Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the critical mid-table, from the little-heard cult gems to the guilty pleasures. Mark Beaumont and Roisin O’Connor pick their favourites

The Independent UK

“George Harrison opened the door to reveal a Formula 1 car in the hall. He said, ‘We made it from a kit and can’t get it out of here!’” Former ELO bassist Michael de Albuquerque’s life and times

Mary Hopkin and Violinski collaborator on becoming friends with Roy Wood, reissuing his solo albums and stepping away from the “not very nice” music industry in favour of antique dealing

Louder

After reviewing hi-fi through five decades, here's why The Wombles remain my biggest musical influence

The furry litter-pickers were a supergroup of GOATs and heavily influential on my formative musical taste.

What Hi-Fi?

A new e-sports brand challenges Razer Kishi with 'Vagabond' mobile controller

The ELO Vagabond is an interesting-looking mobile controller at a premium price, but it is packed with tech to turn your mobile into a bonafide console on the go.

Windows Central

Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra have played the first show of their final US tour: setlist, pics, video

The first night of ELO's Over And Out Tour took place in Thousand Palms, CA

Louder

Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Focus, Gryphon, Tim Bowness, Leprous, Yes, Saucerful Of Secrets, Jadis, ELO, Caligula's Horse, Azure and loads more...

Louder

“The unions stopped playing however far through the song you were. So I got fed up with using strings and I was really glad when the synths came in”: How Jeff Lynne steered ELO through the 80s and beyond

After a decade of massive success, the bandleader faced an ever-increasing rate of change – but an exciting range of new challenges too

Louder

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"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope

With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble

Louder

“I was very pretentious. On the early albums I was writing things I thought I should write. But all I ever wanted to do was write pop songs”: how ELO conquered the planet with mini-symphonies and giant spaceships

UFOs, violins and killer songs – this the epic story of Electric Light Orchestra

Louder

The story of Marillion's Marbles is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Yes, Steven Wilson, Richard Thompson, ELO, AIrbag, Moody Blues, Nordic Giants, Marjana Semkina and loads more...

Louder

“They stuck me in contraptions to make sure he wouldn’t get decapitated”: Comic artist Mark Buckingham on being Peter Gabriel’s stunt double for Sledgehammer

Fables, Hellblazer and Miracleman creative’s prog journey includes ELO, Stackridge, IQ, Magenta, all the King Crimson he can buy… and The Wombles

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The Guardian - AU

Richard Tandy, ELO keyboardist who shaped band’s futuristic sound, dies aged 76

Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne announces death of ‘remarkable musician and friend’ who played everything from the Minimoog to the Clavinet

Louder

"He was a remarkable musician and friend." Jeff Lynne pays tribute to Electric Light Orchestra keyboard player Richard Tandy, who has died aged 76

Richard Tandy was the only ELO musician to feature with Jeff Lynne during all the phases of the band's career

Louder

“We never did any TV-throwing – I’d rather nick ’em than throw ’em out the window”: Jeff Lynne recalls how easy it was for ELO to take over the 70s

From working with Roy Wood and hanging with the Beatles to finding that songs simply poured out of him, the bandleader still can’t believe his luck

Metal Hammer

New vocalists lasted five minutes and founder members quit amid the chaos: 1984 was an awful year for Black Sabbath, and by its end they were almost obliterated

Molotov cocktails and member mayhem: The chaotic story of Black Sabbabth's worst year

Louder

"I heard it for the first time at a dope dealer’s house one night": My 10 favourite British albums ever, by Status Quo's Francis Rossi

Francis Rossi reveals why the Rolling Stones annoy him, names the guitarist whose onstage farewell he copied, and reveals the band "who should have been drowned at birth"

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Jeff Lynne's ELO Announces Final Tour, 'The Over And Out Tour'

Experience the iconic sound of Jeff Lynne's ELO on their final North American tour, 'The Over and Out Tour,' featuring chart-topping hits and exclusive VIP...

Louder

Jeff Lynne’s ELO announce final Over And Out tour, with 27 North American shows

And so, the end is near

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