Outspoken Berlusconi eyes chart success with album of love songs

ITALY’S irrepressible Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tapped an old talent as a nightclub crooner by turning out an album of love songs due to hit the stores in October.

Entitled Better with a Song, the album features seven ballads with lyrics written by the flamboyant 66-year-old media tycoon and politician.

Though seen as sharp and intelligent, the outspoken Berlusconi is prone to gaffes that have seen the European media lying in wait for the next slip.