- Directed four music videos for alternative rock band The Smiths. The songs: "The Queen is Dead", "There is a Light that Never Goes Out", "Ask" and "Panic".
- Christopher Hobbs, in Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004) reported that his last words were "I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies"
- Started as a painter, trained at the Slade Art School. Commissioned to design sets and costumes for "Don Giovanni" at the London Coliseum, following his first successful exhibition.
- He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
- Jarman's production team worked with the Britpop band Suede in "The Tour Films", used as a backdrop for their second tour.
- Educated at Canford School in Dorset, England.
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