While the majority of the release's songs have disappeared from the band's live shows shortly after its supporting tour, "Wasted Years" and "Heaven Can Wait" have appeared on several subsequent tours. On 28 May 2023, nearly 37 years after the album's release, Iron Maiden performed "Alexander the Great" live for the first time. [17] Behind Eddie’s right leg, reflected in the window of the Bradbury Towers Hotel International, there’s a sign that reads ‘This is a very boring painting’. Speak for yourself, there’s plenty of references to go. Popoff, Martin (2006). Run for Cover: The Art of Derek Riggs (1ed.). Aardvark Publishing. p.87. ISBN 1-4276-0538-6. One wonders if Somewhere In Time had put Derek close to a nervous breakdown. "I don't have nervous breakdowns," counters Derek. "Despite what some people might think, I'm quite stable (laughs). No, but that wore me out quite severely. I was living in London at the time, and working on that for two months, and it took three months in all. I just had to stop, because I had had enough. It got into my head and I just couldn't see anything else. I couldn't think about anything else. It did my head in, because there're all these little details. I started hallucinating, and in the end I was just sitting there and daydreaming about what each character was doing. All these little people, where were they were going? What did they do with their lives? I just had enough of it and stopped for two weeks in the middle. But I don't have nightmares and then paint them. It starts and stops on the canvas — usually. But that one was very intense, when you're working at that rate for that long with that much detail... pretty intense bloody work getting that done." The " El Dorado" and " The Final Frontier" radio promo covers, featuring Grant's new Eddie in a comic book sleeve, were created by Anthony Dry. [50]

Below "Acacia" is a poster of Eddie from the first album, with graffiti reading "Eddie lives" written on it. [20] Torn posters are also featured on the " Sanctuary" and " Women in Uniform" singles. 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..."

How did Eddie the Head come about?

There’s definitely a terrific blend of iconography and styles. The Four Horsemen, but on motorcycles, all the Mad Max influence. But what’s the deal with the multi-armed clown DJ? 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. James, Darren (2005). "Rod Speaks". Metal Hammer Presents: Iron Maiden 30 Years of Metal Mayhem: 60. a b c Barton, Geoff (2005). "Evil Woman". Metal Hammer Presents: Iron Maiden 30 Years of Metal Mayhem: 145.

That’s the whole idea, really. Get over your Empires, and start living in the real world. The real world is all we’ve got. Iron Maiden has always had this extra element, this lore , with Eddie, who made his way into video games, comic books, and now this short film. Do you think there is something inherent in the music that lends itself to this additional text? Beast over Hammersmith, shows Eddie planting a British flag in the earth, adapted from The Beast on the Road tour programme from 1982, drawn by Derek Riggs. [94] Mexicancharts.com – Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 September 2021. The Greatest Metal Bands Of All Time". MTV. 9 March 2006. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010 . Retrieved 13 January 2011.The Book of Souls, created by Mark Wilkinson. This Eddie draws inspiration from Maya civilisation, wearing facepaint and earspools similar to those of the Mesoamerican people. [40] [99] a b c d e "Mark Wilkinson: Iron Maiden art". the-masque.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2005 . Retrieved 9 May 2012. Women in Uniform". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.

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. Derek Riggs- Capitol records". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011 . Retrieved 27 September 2011. Below the Eye of Horus is the name, "Websters", a tribute to Charlie Webster, EMI's art director. [20]For the characters, Blinkink came with choices. We had a few DJs but clearly the clown was best; the multi-armed clown, whose head has to explode. Eventually we decided the evil denizens were best represented by silhouettes, like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. And eyeballs. You can’t make out the mass of people — it morphs into eyeballs all doing their shit. At September 21 Kevin Shirley posts this picture of Iron Maiden while on the Senjutsu recording session on his socials asking the fans whether they've heard it and saying he hasn't seen the show yet but he's dying to and has a fear of missing out (FOMO), does that mean no Senjutsu tour next year? Listen, if they can get in “He is the Kwizatz Haderach/He is born of Caladan/And will take the Gom Jabbar” and say it with a straight face, that’s fantastic! I, frankly, have lost pieces of my tongue singing that song. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Iron Maiden; 'Somewhere in Time ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 15 November 2011.

At September 11 Maiden play the first USA show at El Paso, TX and a t the end of the song Iron Maiden this time Bruce says "El Pasoooo, Somewhere in Texas (SIT), Somewhere in Time" (Perhaps we should look at all the other Iron Maiden performances of this tour; I couldn't find the Denver and USANA ones on YouTube to see if he said the word Somewhere so if you were there please comment) Tim Bradstreet, best known for his contributions to The Punisher comics, created the cover of A Matter of Life and Death. [49] Aces High". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.

Eddie the Head’s evolution through the years:

Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes. [25] [26] Iron Maiden [ edit ] Wasted Years". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.