Piero Pintucci (born 8 January 1943) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist.

Life and career

Born in

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, the son of two musicians, Pintucci studied piano at the

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.Ernesto Bassignano. "Pintucci, Piero". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 1346. Put under contract as an arranger by

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, he got his first success arranging

Gianni Morandi Gianni Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. Early life Gian Luigi Morandi was born in a little village called Monghidoro on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. His father Renato was active within the I ...

's hit "

C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones" ('There was a young man who, just like me, loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones') is a song composed by Mauro Lusini and Franco Migliacci, and performed by Gianni Morandi. The s ...

".Enrico Deregibus. "Piero Pintucci". ''Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana''. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 368. . Starting from the late 1960s he was also active as a composer, collaborating among others with

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and

Nicola Di Bari Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Life and career Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a f ...

, for whom he composed the Sanremo Music Festival 1972 winning song "

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". In the mid-1970s Pintucci started a long collaboration as composer and arranger with

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, signing the music of his signature song "Il carrozzone". He often collaborated with

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and

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as a composer of scores and conductor of TV shows, such as

Raffaella Carrà Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (18 June 1943 – 5 July 2021), better known as Raffaella Carrà (), was an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, actress and model. She was well known in Europe and Latin America as a result of her many ...

's ''Carramba''. He also composed the music of the stage musicals ''Fratelli'' and ''Gaetanaccio'', both starring

Gigi Proietti Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter. Early life He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, originally from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a ...

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