Melvyn Grant first drew Eddie for the Fear of the Dark sleeve, the first time anyone other than Riggs had designed a cover for Iron Maiden in which Eddie was pictured. [33] Grant also worked on the Virtual XI, [34] Death on the Road, [35] " The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg", [36] The Final Frontier [37] and From Fear to Eternity covers. [38]

I like real musicians with real instruments, who actually have talent. I despise DJ culture. It’s anti-human. People get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for plugging in a laptop. How did we get to this stupid state of affairs? So, vacuous DJ culture, yeah, let’s shove that in here, because that’s the type of shit these characters would like. Continuing the tour, Derek points out that, "this is whiskey in Yiddish and that's Bruce with a brain. They told me to paint portraits, and they complained because they didn't look exactly like them. Hello? They're inches tall. They're the size of postage stamps (laughs). The whole painting would have been about 15 inches high by about 32 inches long. Powerslave is 23 inches, I think, because that's as big as a sheet of board as I could get, so that would have been probably 23 x 26, and we would have had to trim it down to make it square, or just paint blue at the top or something. But yes, there's Sanctuary Music Shop. There's an HMV store, because they were signed to HMV. There's Gypsy's Kiss, which was Steve's first band. There's the Spitfire from Aces High, so there's the Aces High bar over there. That's a flying saucer, a UFO..." The Clairvoyant". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.At August 27 Stjepan Juras posts this bomb with a photo of a Somewhere in Time vinyl signed by Bruce in 1995 where he also wrote "I don't like this one much" Popoff, Martin (2006). Run for Cover: The Art of Derek Riggs (1ed.). Aardvark Publishing. p.118. ISBN 1-4276-0538-6.

The faceless civil servants who screw up everybody’s lives, and who think there is still an Empire; but they’ve got the arses of their trousers out. Who’s gonna’ tell them about the Emperor’s New Clothes? So our version — also similar to Ripley in Alien 3 when she makes the Christ pose — our version transforms into the Avenging Eddie, with Four Apocalyptic Bikers who crash in with perfect timing to the guitar solo. Right at the first notes … I get goosebumps every time. Iron Maiden Announce First Shows Of 2023's The Future Past Tour". ironmaiden.com. 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. Fear of the Dark' live". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011. Eddie (also known as Eddie the Head) is the mascot for the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He is a perennial fixture of the group's artwork, appearing in all of their album covers (as well as most of their singles) and in their merchandise, which includes T-shirts, posters and action figures. On top of this, Eddie features in all of the band's concerts, as well as in the first-person shooter video game, Ed Hunter, the mobile game, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast and a pinball game with the same name in 2018. [1]a b c Barton, Geoff (2005). "Evil Woman". Metal Hammer Presents: Iron Maiden 30 Years of Metal Mayhem: 145. BBC Archives, created by Derek Riggs for Billboard, the artwork originally depicted Eddie destroying Capitol Records (with whom they had just signed) with the pole of a British flag, [92] but the building was changed for the album cover to him destroying the Broadcasting House instead. [93] Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.172. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.