The Number of the Beast", the single cover showing Eddie holding the devil's severed head, which Riggs claims was meant to look like Salvador Dalí. [60]

At August 7 the Day Of The Dead 2022 Trooper design for was unveiled and it featured the Stranger In A Strange Land EddieBeast over Hammersmith". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011. A bit of a compromise was Wasted Years," laughs Riggs on Somewhere In Time's first single, which pre-empted the album's release by a month. Despite its strangely precise look, the medium for this one is Derek's usual at the time — gouache — but the piece actually looks sort of digital, given its compositional elements. Wasted Years", as the single came out before the album, the band did not want to reveal Eddie's new cyborg guise, so he appears only as a partial reflection in a time machine's monitor. [70] At August 27 Maiden play Curitiba and the shirt design for Brazil features a carnival girl subtly dressed in Somewhere in Time Eddie's skeleton, the 2019 design for Brazil also features Stranger In A Strange Land Eddie on the forefront

Following the World Slavery Tour, the group were given four months to recuperate, with Harris, Smith and guitarist Dave Murray spending the time experimenting with new equipment. [7] The result was a marked change in sound for Iron Maiden, as it was their first to use guitar synthesisers, although on their next release, 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, the effects were provided by keyboards instead. [15] Given their time off, this was their first studio album not to be released a year after their previous one, the band insisting that they have more time "to get it right without hurrying for a change", comments Harris. [7] It was also one of their most expensive records, with the bass and drums recorded in the Bahamas, the guitars and vocals recorded in The Netherlands and the mixing taking place in New York. [7] Below the "Aces High Bar", is a sign that reads "Sand Dune" in reference to their song "To Tame a Land," from Piece of Mind (1983), based on the novel Dune. 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] Maiden Japan, shows Eddie with a samurai sword. The cover was painted at short notice as the original, [57] featuring Eddie decapitating Paul Di'Anno, was withdrawn as the band were considering replacing him. [58] In 1980, Iron Maiden filmed a concert at the Rainbow in London’s Finsbury Park. That venue is now a Christian church.a b c d Popoff, Martin (2006). Run for Cover: The Art of Derek Riggs (1ed.). Aardvark Publishing. p.86. ISBN 1-4276-0538-6. The video has 11 million YouTube views, and has sent fans going frame-by-frame looking for Easter eggs . It must be gratifying. I was nervous about bringing this up, because obviously I respect you and humble myself before Eddie, but when I saw this, I was like, Wait? Are there plural Eddies?! Over the years, his look has changed on each album cover, but I interpreted this as an evolution , like the new Samurai Eddie for Senjutsu. But is there an Eddie multiverse ? At June 30 the boys play Zurich,SW and at the end of Aces High Bruce once again says "We'll see you all Somewhere in Time" The band's bassist and founding member Steve Harris states that the name "Eddie" comes from the original mask being referred to as "The Head", which sounded like "Ead" in the band members' London accent. [10] According to guitarist Dave Murray the name was also inspired by an old joke: