Jeremy Corbyn will grace the cover of NME magazine this week and said his all-time favourite song was Imagine by John Lennon and confessed to preferring Oasis to Blur.

The Labour leader revealed in an interview with the magazine that he listens to Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 during his evenings at home.

In another costly spending commitment pitched at younger voters, Mr Corbyn told NME he wanted to 'ameliorate' the debt owed by thousands of students who paid fees of £9,000 a year.

He said students who went to university after higher fees were introduced were victims of a 'historical misfortune'.

Labour has already pledged to axe tuition fees - costing £7.5billion a year.

Cover star: Jeremy Corbyn has told the NME about his plans to end student tuition fees, how he listens to Radio 3 and confessing that he prefers Oasis to Blur

'There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I'm looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden,' said Mr Corbyn.

'I don't have the simple answer for it at this stage - I don't think anybody would expect me to, because this election was called unexpectedly, we had two weeks to prepare all of this - but I'm very well aware of that problem.'

The party has also promised to restore maintenance grants, taking the full cost of its pledges on higher education to £11.2billion. Vice-chancellors have warned the plans could damage universities.

In a wide ranging interview, Mr Corbyn said the NHS 'is very close to collapse' and could become 'a health service of last resort'.

In the wide ranging interview with the magazine, Mr Corbyn said the NHS 'is very close to collapse' and could become 'a health service of last resort'.

He added: 'Those that can afford it will then buy private medicine, those that couldn't...we'd end up as a sort of American emergency room system. I'm utterly appalled by that very prospect.'

He also proposed, as an anti-knife crime measure, 'searching shrubberies and flower beds and parks where people have been stashing knives'.

Mr Corbyn said he particularly enjoyed classical, folk, jazz and world music, highlighting the composer Gustav Mahler as well as singers Joan Armatrading and Joan Baez.

The Labour leader also spoke about how he enjoyed classical, folk, jazz and world music, highlighting singers Joan Armatrading and Joan Baez. He also said his favourite song as 'Imagine' by John Lennon

Asked who he preferred out of Britpop rivals Blur and Oasis, Mr Corbyn replied: 'I'm going to plump for Oasis, but I know this will immediately divide the audience, so what I should have said was, 'I'll refer it to a focus group to decide,' but I'm not keen on focus groups.'

He said his favourite song was 'Imagine' by John Lennon and has previously described the anti-war track as 'wonderful poetry'.

Labour has repeatedly polled well among younger age groups, with NME's own survey of 18 to 34-year-olds suggesting 41 per cent of this age group will vote for Mr Corbyn.

The Labour leader said the party's manifesto 'offers them hope' given its pledges on tuition fees, schools and the creative industries.

'The future belongs to the youth, let's go with it,' Mr Corbyn said.

The magazine described him as an 'un-politician-looking fella with a neat white beard, loose toursers and comfy shoes'.

The full interview appears in this week's NME, which is out on Friday.