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(Created claim: Date of death (P31): 2026) | (Created claim: context (P47): John Offord, the founder and first editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine and a well-known figure to many in the live entertainment technology industry, has passed away after a short illness. John’s career spanned a time of rapid transformation in professional stage lighting, sound reinforcement, staging and effects. Over a 40-year period, he was a key player in developing the news and informational structure which supported the entertai...) | ||
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| + | John Offord, the founder and first editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine and a well-known figure to many in the live entertainment technology industry, has passed away after a short illness. John’s career spanned a time of rapid transformation in professional stage lighting, sound reinforcement, staging and effects. Over a 40-year period, he was a key player in developing the news and informational structure which supported the entertainment technology industry’s growing behind-the-scenes community of technicians, manufacturers and suppliers, and which lasts to this day. John was born in 1942 in Lewisham, London, the eldest of four siblings, and was destined to work in publishing. Employed at his family’s Eastbourne-based printing firm from the age of 16, he began running the business at just 19, following his father’s retirement. (English) | ||
| Property / context: John Offord, the founder and first editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine and a well-known figure to many in the live entertainment technology industry, has passed away after a short illness. John’s career spanned a time of rapid transformation in professional stage lighting, sound reinforcement, staging and effects. Over a 40-year period, he was a key player in developing the news and informational structure which supported the entertainment technology industry’s growing behind-the-scenes community of technicians, manufacturers and suppliers, and which lasts to this day. John was born in 1942 in Lewisham, London, the eldest of four siblings, and was destined to work in publishing. Employed at his family’s Eastbourne-based printing firm from the age of 16, he began running the business at just 19, following his father’s retirement. (English) / rank | |||
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Revision as of 07:48, 26 February 2026
founder and first editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine
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John Offord, the founder and first editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine and a well-known figure to many in the live entertainment technology industry, has passed away after a short illness. John’s career spanned a time of rapid transformation in professional stage lighting, sound reinforcement, staging and effects. Over a 40-year period, he was a key player in developing the news and informational structure which supported the entertainment technology industry’s growing behind-the-scenes community of technicians, manufacturers and suppliers, and which lasts to this day. John was born in 1942 in Lewisham, London, the eldest of four siblings, and was destined to work in publishing. Employed at his family’s Eastbourne-based printing firm from the age of 16, he began running the business at just 19, following his father’s retirement. (English)
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