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Berlusconi's love songs - will the world listen?
by Johnny Summerton | September 5, 2008 at 08:52 am | 166 views | 1 comment | 5 recommendations
by ErMaphia
It's undoubtedly the news we've all been waiting for.
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is reportedly putting pen to paper to put the finishing touches to songs he's writing with the Italian singer Mariano Apicella.
In a recent article in the Italian daily La Republicca, Apicella was quoted as saying that he and Berlusconi had been working together on some new songs.
"The album will have 14 songs to which the prime minister has written the lyrics," he told the paper.
"None of them will touch the subject of politics, but rather about love" he added.
It won't be the first time the two men have collaborated "musically", as they formed a team for an album of Neapolitan love songs released back in 2003 after Berlusconi "discovered" Apicella, who used to sing in a restaurant.
And the two men were busy composing together again in 2006 for the release of the singer's second album.
Italian Prime Minister and former cruise ship crooner Silvio Berlusconi is reportedly working on a new album of love songs.
He is helping to pen the lyrics to a fresh set of romantic ballads to be recorded by a famous Neapolitan singer.
A previous album released with Mariano Apicella - Meglio Una Canzone (Better a Song) - reached Italy's Top 50 when it was issued in 2003.
The CD could be completed in time for Christmas, Italian newspapers report.
So after France's Italian-born first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy launched her latest album back in July, now we have Berlusconi apparently branching out of politics into music.
For more information (in Italian)
http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/08/25/niente-politica-solo-canzoni-amore-presto.html
September 5, 2008 at 08:52 am by Johnny Summerton, 166 views, 1 comment
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at 16:54 on September 5th, 2008
Johnny Summerton, I like this story. It's good stuff.
re: the snippet of lyrics on the BBC website - is he singing to his lover or his Parliament? I hate to say it, but nothing this man does suprises me anymore. He's become a pastiche of himself.