The Clarkson’s Farm star has shared his plans for a ‘seriously inconvenient’ funeral featuring a 23-minute Genesis song
Jeremy Clarkson has candidly discussed his end-of-life plans, including a rather unconventional funeral arrangement.The star of ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ intends to create posthumous havoc by insisting mourners sit through ‘all 23 minutes’ of a prog rock anthem at his send-off. This forms part of the presenter’s strategy to make his passing ‘seriously inconvenient’.
He also plans to leave certain friends ’20p’ in his will, ensuring they don’t feel overlooked.
The 65-year-old TV personality revealed he would leave former Top Gear co-host James May, 63, a cow, as he believes it would be ‘something he’d find irritating’.
The towering 6ft 5in presenter also disclosed that he would leave ‘all my trousers’ to his other Top Gear colleague, Richard Hammond, who stands at 5ft 6in.
The host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? confessed he had been pondering these post-life arrangements due to the complexities of dying in modern times, according to the Daily Star.
“Eventually, I had everything planned out,” he commented.
“All 23 minutes of Supper’s Ready by Genesis would be played at my funeral,” reports the Express.
This 1972 prog rock epic from the band’s early studio album Foxtrot is their longest track ever recorded.
Penned by lead singer Peter Gabriel, the lyrics narrate a personal journey through scenes from the Book of Revelation, depicting the battle between good and evil via real-world experiences.
The lyrics contain references to agriculture, ‘Winston Churchill dressed in drag’, the ‘guards of Magog’, ‘Pythagoras’ and the ‘King of Kings’
The track 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’s health scare, when Clarkson’s doctor informed him he was “days from death” after he was admitted to hospital with suspected heart attack symptoms.
However, this was subsequently ruled out following an ECG, blood tests and X-rays.
Writing in his Sunday Times column, he revealed: “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.”
