Luigi Arbertelli, the lyricist of the Grendizer themes and many other cartoons, died

February 20 2021

He died on February 19, 2021 at the age of 86 in Tortona (Alessandria), the lyricist of the most famous cartoon themes of the 70s and 80s, among these the most famous is undoubtedly UFO robots and all LP's Atlas UFO Robot where Maestro Vince Tempera is the author of the music. The text "It turns into a rocket missile with the circuits of a thousand valves, sprinting and going among the stars. Eat cybernetic books, math salads and play on Mars va ..."

In the following years he wrote the lyrics of the songs of Capitan harlock, Daitarn III, Anne of Green Gables, Hello! Spank, Future Captain, Remi his adventures, the Maya the Honey Bee goes, Astro Robot, Princess Zapphire, Huck and Jim, Tekkaman.

His first hugely successful television theme was Horse Fury of the West of 1977, but wrote the lyrics for other TV series themes such as the Ballad of Bo and Luke, Dwarf Dwarf, Dallas, George and Mildred. In 2015 he received the Romics d'Oro Musicale award and many other awards related to his work dedicated to the theme songs.