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.

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”.

"Jeff has been battling a systemic infection and is currently in the care of a team of doctors," organizers wrote on July 12.