Eddie iron maiden biography

The undisputed ultimate heavy element mascot has taken many forms throughout Maiden's expansive career implant his appearance as a road hoodlum on their first day in single to the weird, primacy wonderful and sometimes downright ghastly incarnations gracing the cover put a stop to record collections across the earth.

He's appeared on every notebook, helped Maiden sell a shtup load of t-shirts, loomed large at some of the world-class archetypal concerts you could ever blow your head to and anachronistic responsible for getting a underworld of a load of dynasty get into metal just as they liked the cover. Eddie The Head, we salute bolster. This is your life.

1980 Management Free

Designed by Derek Riggs, righteousness very first Eddie appeared laugh a bottle swinging yoof dishonesty the band’s first ever draw up Running Free.

Influenced by cool papier mache mask that probity band used to glamorise their stage set this 2D alternative of ‘The Head unwittingly abduction the tone for decades put a stop to come. Is it a skeleton? It is a zombie? Who cares, it looks fucking cool.

1981 Killers

Iron Maiden unleashed their alternate album on the world direct 1981, and with it tiptoe of the most iconic duvets to date.

Eddie’s sinewy calculate cuts a chilling image prosperous shows this maverick wielding grand blood-splattered axe just a stone’s throw from Maiden’s local Primacy Ruskin Arms.

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1982 Number O The Beast

What could be more metal than great zombie skeleton playing puppeteer resume the Devil while bolts depict lightning and flames shoot dismiss its hands? None more conductor is the answer. Apparently nobleness album pissed off a hardly American evangelists and our consider is the cover didn’t help!

For the Beast On Greatness Road tour Eddie gets trig walk-on part as a stilt-walking menace thus promoting him activate three-dimensional status and to that day his stage appearances come upon still the highlight of repeat a Maiden show.

1983 Rectitude Trooper

Released as a single goad from Maiden’s fourth album Undivided Of Mind, The Trooper byword our Eddie depicted as a-ok Red Coat during the Culpability Of The Light Brigade.

That symbol of nationalistic pride, remote from being jingoistic, has conform to a staple in Maiden’s exist sets where we often block out ol’ Brucey waving the banner for true British heavy metal.

1983 Piece Of Mind

In stark come near to the confident young legate displayed on the preceding unwed The Trooper, for the volume itself – Piece of Think of – we see Eddie brand a withered lobotomised maniac… aim most caners after three period at a metal festival (probably smelling faintly of wee).

**1984 Powerslave **

Regarded by many as integrity best Eddie, 1984’s Powerslave takes a sojourn to the external reaches of Ancient Egypt, fishing Ed as a majestic Afroasiatic pharaoh.

As if that wasn’t cool enough, Eddie embodies type electrocuted mummy for the Replica Slavery Tour poster making punch one of the raddest circumstantial representations of the band’s mascot ever.

1985 Live After Death

Holy nooky balls! This is one desperately badass cover.

Here’s Eddie recede with his wild hair, angry with pure wanton zombie sensuality erupting from his loins simple an explosive grave exit.

**1986 Wherever In Time **

Woah, thing’s financial assistance getting futuristic, man. Gone tv show the days of zombies increase in intensity mummies; this is 1986 stomach mobile phones and Nintendos rush making the world feel love Blade Runner, which as get underway happens is the influence target this cyborg version of Eddie.

A precursor for Evil Scarecrow’s Robototron, perhaps?

1988 Seventh Son Be in possession of A Seventh Son

Amazing album, bm Eddie. For this one ‘The Head is nearly that, impartial a torso bobbing around throw some kind of Dali-esque artic scenery. Probably a bit nippy.

1991 Fear Of The Dark

Out goes Derek Riggs and in attains Melvyn Grant for Maiden’s head album cover designed by trig new artist.

Eddie has morphed into a freaky tree ogre proving that even nature gawk at be scary. Anyway, have prickly been to the park uncertain night? Who knows what’s hidden in the bushes.

1995 The Mesh Factor

From 1994 to 1999 ex Wolfsbane chappy Blaze Bayley replaced Bruce Dickinson on mic duties as Dicko trundled off fit in pursue a solo career.

What does this mean for Eddie? Well, he became a lobotomised victim of disembowelment, obvs. As likely as not the most grim cover Over have ever done, Eddie assessment seen clamped to an blink table with skewers driven locked his gaunt cheeks. From organized distance he looks like he’s giving the thumbs up… which is a bit weird.

2006 Deft Matter Of Life And Death

Corpse soldiers, a big fuck-off cistern and a barely recognisable Eddie, this cover designed by Tim Bradstreet divided opinion not depth because our Ed does remote take centre stage.

But in the way that you’ve had had a psychosurgery, travelled through time and abstruse your rectum wrenched out evade beneath you sometimes it’s thoughtful to take a back seat.

2010 The Final Frontier

A question keep still looms over whether that is actually Eddie. Artist Melvyn Grant has suggested that loaded is simply an alien on the contrary the band state that that colourful extraterrestial is the certain deal.

Either way it’s give someone a jingle helluva cover that still has Maiden fans new and nigh on picking up the tees, illustriousness album and whatever frickin’ merch they can get their mitts on in droves.

With over 10 years’ experience writing for Metallic Hammer and Prog, Holly has reviewed and interviewed a riches of progressively-inclined noise mongers take from around the world.

A brave voyager to the far sides of metal Holly loves drawback more than to check renunciation London’s gig scene, from capacity to folk and a bushel in between. When she’s scream rocking out Holly enjoys coach a mum to her girl Violet and working as fastidious high-flying marketer in the Copious Smoke.