Jeff Lynne Announces Star-Filled Lineup For 2025 Final Tour
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Jeff Lynne performing on opening night of his 2024 tour at Palm Desert, CA (Photo: Jason Stoltzfus via Live Nation)
Jeff Lynne has announced the stars who’ll be supporting him on the five dates of his 2025 “Over and Out” U.K. tour. Jeff Lynne’s ELO are first doing four arena shows—a pair each in Birmingham and Manchester—in advance of what is billed as the band’s final concert, to be held at London’s Hyde Park on July 13. The star-studded lineup for the finale includes the Doobie Brothers, Steve Winwood and Dhani Harrison. Harrison, who served as the opening act for Lynne’s 2019 tour, will be the sole support act for the earlier arena dates.
The London performance, first revealed in The Times (U.K.) on October 20, 2024, included a brief quote by the Electric Light Orchestra mastermind. “My return to touring began at Hyde Park in 2014,” Lynne told The Times. “It seems like the perfect place to do our final show. We couldn’t be more excited to share this special night in London with our U.K. fans. As the song goes, ‘we’re gonna do it One More Time!’” At the time, no mention of whether the London concert—which quickly sold out, and is part of the annual BST Hyde Park program—would be the culmination of a 2025 U.K. tour, though it was anticipated that Lynne would do a summer run there. Surprisingly, no other cities were added other than Birmingham and Manchester. Tickets quickly sold but might be available here and here.
Related: Our review of the tour’s final U.S. performance, on Oct. 29, 2024
The band’s 2014 Hyde Park concert led to a pair of shows at small venues in New York and Los Angeles in 2015. In subsequent years, Lynne booked larger and even larger venues in North America, the U.K. and Europe.
Related: Our reviews of the 2014 Hyde Park concert, 2015 at NYC’s Irving Plaza, 2016 at Radio City Music Hall and 2018 at Madison Square Garden
Jeff Lynne’s ELO, as the band has been known for a decade, finished its “The Over and Out” 2024 North American tour on October 29. The 31 shows represented his first tour in five years. But there was never a hint about a U.K. run. The original 2024 tour announcement on March 19, billed as the final tour, followed a pair of teaser posts on his various social media accounts. (Those were preceded by a Facebook post on Christmas Eve that noted, “I look forward to seeing you in the New Year.”)
Lynne, who turned 77 last Dec. 30, made his first stage performance in four years when he played a 10-song set at Joe Walsh’s VetsAid benefit concert on November 12, 2023.
Watch Jeff Lynne’s ELO perform “All Over the World” during their VetsAid set
Lynne’s most recent studio album was From Out of Nowhere, released in November 2019 and the first from Jeff Lynne’s ELO since 2015. Order it in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. It followed 2015’s Alone in the Universe, which initiated a burst of activity from the maestro. Lynne resumed touring with a new edition of the Electric Light Orchestra, now dubbed Jeff Lynne’s ELO. The band did a 2019 summer tour in the U.S. and had booked a 2020 U.K. tour which was canceled due to the pandemic.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO performing on opening night of their 2024 tour at Palm Desert, CA (Photo: Jason Stoltzfus via Live Nation)
Related: Our recap of opening night of the 2024 tour
Jeff Lynne’s ELO “The Over and Out UK Tour (Tickets are available here and here)
July 05 – Birmingham – Utilita Arena
July 06 – Birmingham – Utilita Arena
July 09 – Manchester – Co-op Live
July 10 – Manchester – Co-op Live
July 13 – London – Hyde Park
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ELO recordings are available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.
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Jump into a conversationThe ELO Show in Detroit was the best I’ve ever experienced in over 50 years of going to rock shows….
It was such a great show, I wish I could do it all over again.