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Riggs' most famous achievement is his work with Iron Maiden and his creation of Eddie, the band's mascot and subject of their album and single covers. [3] Riggs' first picture of Eddie was originally entitled "Electric Matthew Says Hello," [4] and was actually painted for a possible punk cover. [5]
Fear of the Dark is the first cover not created by Derek Riggs and features Melvyn Grant's design of Eddie as a tree monster. [34] "Be Quick or Be Dead" shows Eddie attacking Robert Maxwell. According to Riggs, Eddie was drawn directly onto a photo of Maxwell. [82] A Real Live One depicts Eddie biting through an electrical cord. [83]
The cover artwork was done by Derek Riggs, best known for his artwork on majority of Iron Maiden's albums. It features Edwina T. Head, a female version of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie. The Maidens have jokingly stated during an interview that the design of Edwina was inspired by Paris Hilton. [3]
The cover art was produced by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie, and the artwork on all of Iron Maiden's albums, singles, posters and tour brochures throughout 1980–1990 (and sporadically afterwards up until 2000's Brave New World, other than one additional Eddie drawing for the cover of his book Run for Cover).
The haloed black cat from the back cover of Live After Death (1985) is on the pavement behind Eddie. [27] Below the Eye of Horus is the name, "Websters", a tribute to Charlie Webster, EMI's art director. [25] Derek Riggs' artistic signature symbol can be found on Eddie's chest. References on the back include:
The original 1990 version has Eddie bursting from his grave and grabbing a gravedigger (with the likeness of the band's manager, Rod Smallwood) by the neck. However, Smallwood disliked the figure and asked artist Derek Riggs to remove him from the cover for the 1998 re-release, [ 10 ] although the original artwork is used on the disc itself.
Derek Hough took to the ballroom floor on Tuesday’s episode for an emotional contemporary dance with his wife, former DWTS troupe dancer Hayley Erbert, for the first time since she suffered a ...
The cover art, by Derek Riggs, pictures the band's mascot, Eddie, rising from a grave. Engraved on his tombstone is a misquote from fantasy and horror fiction author H. P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City: [14] "That is not dead which can eternal lie Yet with strange aeons even death may die."