Maiden England". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011. Iron Maiden Announces 'The Future Past' 2023 European Tour". Blabbermouth.net. 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 4 November 2022. Although "space and time" are common themes throughout the release, with songs such as "Wasted Years", "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Deja-Vu", the band never intended for it to be a concept album, with Harris stating, "We certainly never went in there and said, 'Right let's write a load of songs on the subject of time. '" [16] So this Iron Maiden album came out in 1986. If you look closely on the far right it says “Eddie Lives”. And some of the songs on that album include: Caught Somewhere in Time, Wasted Years, Sea of Madness, Stranger in a Strange Land.’ 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.

Greekcharts.com – Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 September 2021.Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.

Running Free". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011. Stagno, Mike (13 September 2006). "Iron Maiden - Dance of Death". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved 18 June 2011. The video has 11 million YouTube views, and has sent fans going frame-by-frame looking for Easter eggs . It must be gratifying. The Final Frontier, drawn by Melvyn Grant, shows Eddie as an Extraterrestrial retrieving a key from a space ship. [37] The artwork confused many fans claiming that it was not Eddie. [97] Melvyn Grant himself has distanced this new monster from previous Eddie incarnations, stating that it "is not Eddie, as such," [98] although the band members state that it is. [37] Brave New World". Derek Riggs. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011 . Retrieved 23 September 2011.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. This was the ‘Great Inflatable’ tour. Dave Lights was still doing our lighting stuff and he was well into inflatables,” Bruce remembers. “He had a bit of an inflatable megalomania, in fact. He built inflatables that were so big they wouldn’t actually fit inside the sodding buildings! We had two big hydraulic hands, which would raise up – not Spinal Tap at all! – with big Eddie claw hands that would inflate…” Popoff, Martin (2005). "Bullet in the Head". Metal Hammer Presents: Iron Maiden 30 Years of Metal Mayhem: 43.

a b Popoff, Martin (2006). Run for Cover: The Art of Derek Riggs (1ed.). Aardvark Publishing. p.99. ISBN 1-4276-0538-6. IRON MAIDEN Plays First Show Of "The Future Past Tour 2023, Set-list and Videos Revealed". www.sonicperspectives.com. 29 May 2023 . Retrieved 29 May 2023. So many great Iron Maiden songs are based on classic films , or epic poems or science fiction books like Childhood’s End or Stranger in a Strange Land . If it’s one written by one of your colleagues, and you don’t know the work, do you think, “oh, Christ, now I have homework”? Fear of the Dark, the first cover not created by Derek Riggs, features Melvyn Grant's design of Eddie as a tree monster. [33] Out of the Silent Planet", features Eddie at a press conference, also designed by Wilkinson. [39] An alternate cover uses the same Eddie from the Brave New World cover.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]