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Lupin Music Composer Takeo Yamashita Dies
Date: 11/24/2005
Asahi Obituaries reports on Monday, the 21st of this month, Takeo Yamashita, who wrote the music in the first Lupin III TV series has died of Cerebral Thrombosis. He was 75 years old. His close relatives have already held his funeral. Besides Lupin Yamashita-san also worked on the title theme songs and soundtracks of many of Japan's classic TV dramas and animations including Shichinin No Keiji, Oooka-Echizen, Playgirl, Super Jetter, Giant Robo and Ganba No Bouken. He also did commercial jingle work but he always be best known for muci relating to the stage of enterteinmant. About 7,000 songs in total were written by the man. At the end of the 1990's the music world did a re-evaluation of the composer and much of his material was rereleased to the market. 2000 saw a popular selling compilation CD, "Yamashita*Deluxe".
Source: Anime News Service