The Clarkson’s Farm star has shared his plans to make his death ‘seriously inconvenient’ by playing prog rock anthem at his funeral
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a sombre end-of-life admission as he disclosed his funeral arrangements.
The Clarkson’s Farm star intends to cause havoc from beyond the grave by forcing mourners to sit through ‘all 23 minutes’ of a prog rock anthem at his funeral. It forms part of a strategy the Clarkson’s Farm presenter has concocted to make his death ‘seriously inconvenient’.
He plans to leave certain friends ’20p’ in his will so they won’t think he ‘forgot about them’.
Clarkson, 65, disclosed he will leave former Top Gear co-presenter James May, 63, a cow because whatever he gives him ‘needs to be something he’d find irritating’.
The 6ft 5in presenter said he will hand down to his other Top Gear colleague – 5ft 6in host Richard Hammond, 56 – ‘all my trousers’, reports the Express.
The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? presenter acknowledged he had been considering post-life arrangements because ‘dying in this day and age is unbelievably complicated’. “Eventually, I had everything planned out,” he said.
“All 23 minutes of Supper’s Ready by Genesis would be played at my funeral.”
The 1972 prog rock epic comes from the band’s early studio album Foxtrot and remains the longest track they ever recorded.
The lyrics – penned by frontman Peter Gabriel – detail a personal journey of scenes from the Book of Revelation and the battle between good and evil depicted through real-life experiences.
They contain references to farming, ‘Winston Churchill dressed in drag’, the ‘guards of Magog, ‘Pythagoras’ and the ‘King of Kings’.
It became a staple of the band’s live shows and occupied an entire side of their 1977 concert album, Seconds Out.
This follows last year, when Clarkson was informed by his doctor that he was “days from death” after being rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack. This was subsequently ruled out following an ECG, blood tests and X-rays.
He wrote in his Sunday Times column: “It seems that of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way.”
