Tonight marks the first preview performance of the much-anticipated Corbyn the Musical: the Motorcycle Diaries. The ‘no-holds barred political satire’ musical — written by Rupert Myers and Bobby Friedman — imagines Jeremy Corbyn facing a nuclear crisis. It will also offers a take on what may have gone on when Corbyn and Diane Abbott are said to have gone on a motorcycle holiday in the 1970s.
Alas Mr S hears that the Labour leader is less than amused with the idea; he is yet to respond to an invitation to attend. So, to give Corbyn — and those who failed to get tickets in time — a taste for the musical, here are the lyrics to the show’s opening number ‘You needed a hero‘:
They said I couldn’t do it, they said I couldn’t win.
There’d never be a P.M. called Jeremy Corbyn.
Now I am in power, the clouds will disappear.
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