The first album indeed featured the face of Eddie, it was still a 'weird' Eddie and Derek soon changed his face.
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The band decided to keep the "new" Eddie's appearance as a secret for everybody until the first album, therefore the Eddie which appears on the Running Free sleeve, is standing in the shadows.
The photo that supposedly inspired artist Derek Riggs for the creation of Eddie the HeadĮddie became the registered mark of the band but he was still only that head on the stage and nothing more, that is until the band hired Derek Riggs, through their manager Rod Smallwood, to designed the long awaited body for Eddie. So five years later Eddie'sįather entered the room on Eddie's birthday and said:
Needn't worry since he would come up with a suitable body for The fans gave to the puppet the name of Eddie The Head, based on a well-known plenty joke at that time which goes something like this:Ī woman had given birth to just a head, the doctor told her she Once he it placed in the fund of the stage, beside the logotype of the band, a great mask that had acquired in an art academy and he used an aquarium air-pump to pump artificial blood through the mouth during the song Iron Maiden. After Dennis Wilcock (a former vocalist) left the band a guy named Dave Beasly took over the whole stage act thing, and he soon got the nickname Dave Lights because of his almost insane ideas to improve the stage show with things like gunpowder, flower pots, lights and even vacuum cleaner parts. The list doesn't end there though, so take a tour through all of Eddie's incarnations since making his shadowy debut on the "Running Free" single back in 1980.Steve and the band were trying out different things to incorporate in their stage shows a long time before the first Eddie appeared on an album cover. Meanwhile, Mark Wilkinson, whom the band had used for live albums and singles, though with sparing reoccurrence, finally got the nod to etch his name in Maiden history with a studio cover for The Book of Souls, delivering possibly the finest looking Eddie of the 21st century. Hugh Syme, best known for his work with Rush (he's done all of their album covers save for the first pair of records) devised the most brutal depictions of Eddie as seen on the cover art for The X Factor and its accompanying singles. Melvyn Grant, creator of the horrifying Fear of the Dark artwork has been one of the legendary group's most frequent collaborators behind Riggs, having worked on Virtual XI, The Final Frontier and various singles. Naturally, Riggs is the most celebrated artist when discussing Maiden's visual catalog, but let's not forget the other cast of artists who helped bring Eddie to life (or sent him to his death). Eddie is a fixture of Maiden's live shows, his appearance often marking the high point of the concert. With Riggs as the band's sole artist - designing album covers, single covers and t-shirts - until 1992's Fear of the Dark album cover, this relationship launched a new era of visuals that would forever be intertwined with heavy metal's already defiant image.
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