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It was released on 22 March 1982 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Harvest and Capitol Records. The album was their first to feature vocalist Bruce Dickinson and their last with drummer Clive Burr.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Number of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e was met with critical and commercial success, and became the band's first album to top the UK Albums Chart and reach the top 40 of the US Billboard 200. The album produced the singles \u003cem\u003e\"Run to the Hills\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"The Number of the Beast\"\u003c\/em\u003e, the former of which became the band's first top-ten UK single. Since the release of The Number of the Beast, \u003cem\u003e\"The Beast\"\u003c\/em\u003e has become an alternate name for Iron Maiden and was later used in the titles of some of their compilations and live releases, including \u003cem\u003eBest of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVisions of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike all of Iron Maiden's album artwork during the 1980s and early 90s, this one was also painted by Derek Riggs. The cover was originally created for the song \u003cem\u003e\"Purgatory\"\u003c\/em\u003e, but ended up to be the cover for \u003cem\u003eThe Number of the Beast.\u003c\/em\u003e The original 1982 artwork includes a blue sky in the background; a mistake by the printers of the cover, this was corrected to black when the album was remastered for compact disc in 1998.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album attracted controversy, particularly in the United States, due to the lyrics of the title track and the cover art depicting Eddie controlling Satan like a puppet, while Satan is also controlling a smaller Eddie. The concept was to ask \u003cem\u003e\"who's the really evil one here? Who's manipulating who?\".\u003c\/em\u003e According to Riggs, this was inspired by a Doctor Strange comic book, \u003cem\u003e\"which had some big villain with Doctor Strange dangling on some strings like a puppet – it was something I read as a child back in the 1960s, I think,\"\u003c\/em\u003e while the images of hell were \u003cem\u003e\"taken from my knowledge of medieval European Christian art which was full of such scenes\".\u003c\/em\u003e In addition, Satan was supposed to have wings made out of lightning and smoke (which can still be seen vaguely in the final piece) but due to time constrain, Riggs was unable to complete it as intended. 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It was released on 11 April 1988 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Capitol Records. Like \u003cem\u003eThe Number of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e (1982) and later \u003cem\u003eFear of the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), \u003cem\u003eThe Final Frontier \u003c\/em\u003e(2010), and The Book of Souls (2015), the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. The lead single \u003cem\u003e\"Can I Play with Madness\"\u003c\/em\u003e was also a commercial success, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA concept album inspired by the novel \u003cem\u003eSeventh Son\u003c\/em\u003e by Orson Scott Card, the record incorporates elements of progressive rock, seen in the length and complex structure of the title track. It was also the first Iron Maiden album to feature keyboards, after the band had introduced non-keyboard synth effects on their previous LP, \u003cem\u003eSomewhere in Time\u003c\/em\u003e (1986).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the album's release, the band embarked on the \u003cem\u003eSeventh Tour of a Seventh Tour\u003c\/em\u003e in which Derek Riggs' cover artwork was recreated on stage. The band played over 100 shows, including the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park, and recorded the Maiden England video at Birmingham's NEC. From 2012–2014, the band revisited the \u003cem\u003eSeventh Son\u003c\/em\u003e era on their Maiden England World Tour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe brief given to Derek Riggs (the group's then regular artist) was, unlike with previous albums, to create \u003cem\u003e\"simply something surreal and bloody weird\".\u003c\/em\u003e Riggs confirms that \u003cem\u003e\"they said they wanted one of my surreal things. 'It's about prophecy and seeing into the future, and we want one of your surreal things.' That was the brief ... I had a limited time to do the picture, and I thought it was pretty weird their concept, so I just went with that.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDickinson states that the idea to set the painting in a polar landscape may have originated from when he showed Riggs a Gustave Doré piece, depicting traitors frozen in a lake of ice in the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno. In contradiction of this, Riggs states that the setting was because he \u003cem\u003e\"might have just seen a documentary about the North Pole or something ... I wanted something that was a departure from all the cityscapes and things. It was about prophecy and seeing the future, and so I just wanted something distant. And then they said, on the back, 'Could you stick all the other Eddies in the ice?' So I did.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpeaking about the depiction of the band's mascot, Eddie, Riggs states that \u003cem\u003e\"I thought, you know, I don't feel like painting all of Eddie, so I'll get rid of him. I'll chop him off, and make it look kind of non-pleasant.\"\u003c\/em\u003e In addition to the lobotomy and cyborg enhancements, left over from the \u003cem\u003ePiece of Mind\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSomewhere in Time\u003c\/em\u003e album covers respectively, this incarnation also comes with an in utero baby in his left hand and an apple, inspired by the Garden of Eden and featuring a red and green yin and yang. 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It was released on 22 March 1982 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Harvest and Capitol Records. The album was their first to feature vocalist Bruce Dickinson and their last with drummer Clive Burr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Number of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas met with critical and commercial success, and became the band's first album to top the UK Albums Chart and reach the top 40 of the US Billboard 200. The album produced the singles\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Run to the Hills\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Number of the Beast\"\u003c\/em\u003e, the former of which became the band's first top-ten UK single. Since the release of The Number of the Beast,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Beast\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas become an alternate name for Iron Maiden and was later used in the titles of some of their compilations and live releases, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisions of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all of Iron Maiden's album artwork during the 1980s and early 90s, this one was also painted by Derek Riggs. The cover was originally created for the song\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Purgatory\"\u003c\/em\u003e, but ended up to be the cover for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Number of the Beast.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe original 1982 artwork includes a blue sky in the background; a mistake by the printers of the cover, this was corrected to black when the album was remastered for compact disc in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album attracted controversy, particularly in the United States, due to the lyrics of the title track and the cover art depicting Eddie controlling Satan like a puppet, while Satan is also controlling a smaller Eddie. The concept was to ask\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"who's the really evil one here? 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And, more recently, has begun wearing an authentic red coat uniform which would have been worn during the battle on which the song was based.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEddie sheds his tatty jeans-and-T-shirt combo for the first time, changing into a smart red cavalry uniform for arguably his most popular incarnation – the Trooper tattoo taking pride of place on Steve Harris’s forearm. There is something highly stirring about this image of bullish resilience, but Riggsy reckons its appeal is more simple:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I think this is popular because it has a lot of red and blue in it,”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einsists the artist.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The other covers don’t have much red. 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It was one of only a few songs to get much radio airplay in the United States, thus peaking at No. 28 on the US Mainstream Rock charts. It also achieved success in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 12 in the UK Singles Charts as well as gaining a much better reception than the band's previous single, \u003cem\u003e\"Flight of Icarus\"\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten by bassist and founding member Steve Harris, the song is based on the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava 1854, which took place during the Crimean War, and inspired by Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem of the same name. The track has been the subject of much praise since its release, with AllMusic describing it as \u003cem\u003e\"an all-time genre classic that boasts guitarists Dave Murray and Adrian Smith's most memorable harmonized lead riff, plus that trademark galloping rhythm,\"\u003c\/em\u003e while Mick Wall comments that it is the song \u003cem\u003e\"which most Maiden fans from those days still recall first when you mention the Piece of Mind album.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Despite the popularity of the song, it was the single's B-Side, a cover of Jethro Tull's \u003cem\u003e\"Cross-Eyed Mary\"\u003c\/em\u003e, which managed to gain a substantial amount of airplay on US radio, becoming one of the band's few tracks, along with previous single \u003cem\u003e\"Flight of Icarus\"\u003c\/em\u003e, to do so.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s quite an atmospheric song as the opening in “\u003cem\u003eThe Trooper”\u003c\/em\u003e is meant to try and recreate the galloping horses in the charge of the light brigade. The first verses show the soldier’s patriotism: He’s willing to die if he can take an enemy with him. \u003cem\u003e“Run you through”\u003c\/em\u003e regards various kinds of blades – swords, spears (the presumed weapon of a light cavalryman) and bayonets installed atop the rifles to stab approaching enemies. And as the trooper dies, he feels lonely on the ground and slowly fading to death. Despite this feeling of emptiness and being \u003cem\u003e“forgotten,”\u003c\/em\u003e he dies without regret or fear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA regular fixture in the band’s concerts, vocalist Bruce Dickinson has always waved a Union Flag during live performances. 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It was re-released by Sanctuary and Columbia Records in the United States in 2002.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album's cover artwork, designed by Derek Riggs, is notable for its Ancient Egypt theme. That theme, taken from the title track, was carried over to the album's supporting tour, the World Slavery Tour. This began in Warsaw, Poland, on 9 August 1984, that is widely regarded as being the band's longest and most arduous tour to date, and led to the live album \u003cem\u003eLive After Death\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe release contains a musical re-telling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the lyrics of which include some lines from the poem. At 13 minutes and 45 seconds in length, this was Iron Maiden's longest song for over 30 years until it was surpassed by the 18-minute \"\u003cem\u003eEmpire of the Clouds\"\u003c\/em\u003e from the 2015 album \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePowerslave\u003c\/em\u003e is notable as the band's first album to feature the same personnel as their previous studio release. This lineup would remain intact for two further studio releases. 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It was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California and Hammersmith Odeon, London during the band's World Slavery Tour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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. 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His long hair is restored and he sports the metal screw cartouche from his Piece of Mind lobotomy, which is being struck by lightning. He is also bound by metal cuffs connected by an electrical surge, as seen in \u003cem\u003ePowerslave\u003c\/em\u003e tour promotional artwork.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe back cover depicts the rest of the graveyard and a city being destroyed by lightning, which Riggs states was inspired by John Martin's painting, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Death appears in the clouds above the destroyed city; the character is a regular feature of Riggs' covers (such as \u003cem\u003e\"Twilight Zone\",\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"The Trooper\"\u003c\/em\u003e, “\u003cem\u003ePowerslave”\u003c\/em\u003e and “\u003cem\u003eSomewhere in Time”\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the back side of the cover near Eddie's grave is a black cat with a halo, which also features in the \u003cem\u003e“Somewhere in Time\u003c\/em\u003e” and \"Twilight Zone\" artworks. This, said Riggs, was \"not about anything really\" and was added \"to get people's attention\". To the cat's left is a tombstone engraved with \"Here lies Derek Riggs\". Riggs also included gravestones that state \"Live With Pride\", added at the band's request to show opposition to lip-synched performances, \"Here Lies Faust In Body Only\", the German legend who sold his soul to the Devil (hence \"in body only\"), and a stone that simply reads \"Thank You\", representing the Grateful Dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe video version of the concert only contains footage from the Long Beach shows. It was initially released though Sony as a \"Video LP\" on VHS hi-fi stereo and Beta hi-fi stereo with 14 songs and no special features and was reissued on DVD on 4 February 2008, which coincided with the start of the band's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. 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Their first album in six years, it was a critical and commercial success, praised for its ambitious epic scope. Two singles, \u003cem\u003e\"The Writing on the Wall\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"Stratego\",\u003c\/em\u003e were released to promote the album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Senjutsu (loosely translated as ‘\u003cem\u003etactics \u0026amp; strategy’\u003c\/em\u003e), the band enlisted the services of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai themed cover artwork, based on an idea by Steve Harris. And with a running time of a little under 82 minutes, \u003cem\u003eSenjutsu\u003c\/em\u003e, like their previous record \u003cem\u003eThe Book Of Souls\u003c\/em\u003e, is a double CD album\/triple vinyl album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an interesting interview of the artist talking about the build up of the artwork:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat were your first thoughts when you heard Steve wanted a samurai Eddie?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteve had sent what we used to call at Art College a 'mood board' - a collage of pictures and reference material to act as a guide to what he had in mind for Senjutsu. There were a lot of Kabuki face-painting ideas and masks. He did say these can sometimes be too theatrical or over the top, but he wanted to show the menace and madness of some of them. There were also creatures from Japanese folklore, 'oni'. They are typically portrayed as hulking figures with one or more horns growing out of their heads and red-, blue- or white-colored skin, a huge mouth and fang-like tusks. There were samurai warriors and images of pagodas, suggestions of armor... a smorgasbord of ideas in other words!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow did you research and where did you draw inspiration from? What were your reference points - books, movies or actual artefacts?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was not keen to simply plonk skeletal Eddie into the elaborately embroidered padded costumes of the early samurai.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI preferred the distressed metallic armor of the lower-caste warrior tribes that came later on in Japanese history - lots of tom cloth and rustic leather, heavy breastplates painted with tribal symbols held with dyed rope. I started with the face - with thickly applied Kabuki white face paint and red streaks. The fangs from the oni monsters then added an authentic Japanese look, which took Eddie into a different realm of menace.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach time I've worked with Steve he's always wanted to create something so realistic and visceral with Eddie that he'd be your worst nightmare. Steve liked the black background from Book Of Souls, and suggested we kept the cover art simple, leaving the complex colorful 'reveal' reserved for the inside art again. With the red lettering and Hanko seal, the cover had that authentic indigenous Japanese look of the Edo period we were after.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe elegance of the battle stance with the sword and strategic poses of the samurai, mixed in with the horror of the make-up, would scare the bejeezus out of any enemy that dared face them... that was the mission statement of the samurai... and ours for Eddie too.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI looked at The Last Samurai and Seven Samurai films, bought a few books on samurai costume, and later on checked out the beautiful artwork from the Ghost Of Tsushima game. I also spent a day in the V\u0026amp;A Museum in London (pre-Covid) to look at the samurai exhibits, including the swords and armor. I wanted to get a feel for the helmets too, and learn how they were constructed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat were some of the challenges of depicting samurai armour in such detail?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe materials used for the armor of the samurai changed through the years from the 4th to the 19th century, from the heavily decorated ornate layers of fabric and lacquer applied for extra protection to the later use of iron chest plates attached by colored rope. The basic shape of the samurai armor, katana swords and shape of the 'kabuto' combat helmet changed little in style however. The ear defenders or 'fukigaeshi', attached to the 'shikoro' (neck cowl) with the 'hachi' (helmet). They were all a mix of metal and\/or leather - some had visors, which of course I avoided, as you wouldn't have seen Eddie's face at all then!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I had to honor the sheer craftsmanship of samurai armor with that astonishing level of detail, it had to be perfect no matter what pose we had for Eddie as a samurai.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI suggested to Shacky... as the management were going to create an amazing animation for the first single, TWOTW, we commissioned a friend of mine, Michael Knowland, to construct a 3D model of Eddie's head and shoulders based on my designs so we could turn Eddie around and figure out a way to make it work. Michael is a brilliant 3D artist who was previously employed by Naughty Dog in San Diego on the first Last Of Us game as lead character artist. But he'd left there, moved to London and was taking on freelance projects. The timing was perfect.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteve likes a nickname, and we heard he started calling you the tinkerer'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I went through dozens of ideas for Samurai Eddie and many ideas about backgrounds too. Steve always knew when I'd changed any detail... I called him 'Eagle-Eye' when he spotted something so he started to call me 'The Tinkerer', said he had me on speed-dial with that name and it sort of stuck! It was a football reference - Claudio Ranieri the Chelsea and Leicester City manager's need to tamper seemed almost out of control... constantly changing his squad and tactics. I used to drive Steve up the wall with my 'tinkering'... he'd say, 'Why have you changed it? I liked it exactly how it was before!' 'I think I've improved it,’ I'd reply. 'Well, you haven't - leave it as it was!' He'd laugh - it was always good humored.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAside from the japanese aesthetic, what are the challenges of getting eddie right?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I'm well aware that I'm dealing with one of (if not the) most recognizable 'brands' in music history, Eddie is an institution as far as the fans are concerned. I always say (if asked) that the artists that came after Derek Riggs are caretakers of his brilliant creation if you don't respect that, then you are fooling yourself. However... there's not much point in simply recreating the same thing over and over again... or attempt a pastiche in the same style as Derek, which would be disrespectful.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI think I brought something new to the party, a visceral realism that took me a long time to get right.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat can you tell us about the beautiful pagoda reveal? It was quite the surprise when the album arrived with people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Steve always had it in his mind to have a simpler image for the Senjutsu cover and (as with The Book Of Souls) the big scene inside. To begin with I was just asked to design a pagoda, which I started after the first Eddie was done. But the timelines shifted when the album was put back due to Covid. I then had a lot more time to spend on the pagoda and Steve suggested we go for a full battle scene.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt came together (as you would expect from me) slowly! Very slowly because I was still adding extra Samurai Eddies for the packaging. I would down tools on the pagoda scene... tinker a bit more on, say, the full body design so Michael could complete the 3D model, then return to the pagoda scene. Stuart Crouch designed some flags so I was asked to put a few of those in, there were dead bodies to paint and arrange in an - ahem - artistic manner... then Steve suggested adding the two huge stone lanterns each side to create more depth as the aerial perspective was so widescreen. It turned into an immense project, that inside artwork... 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All the jokes are my idea, like the reflection in the window that says 'This is a very boring painting.' Occasionally someone would come up with an idea for an actual picture, but the brief for this one was, we want a city more like the Blade Runner city rather than something like Star Wars. They wanted a science fiction city. So l worked with that brief and created a picture. I had put in a bunch of well-known starships like the U.S.S. Enterprise, but they didn't want to get sued so I had to take them out. But I did manage to squeeze in Batman — this is three years before the movie came out. He's on the back, standing on a ledge, which is just above the Powerslave cartouche.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDerek continues his tour of \u003cem\u003eSomewhere In Time\u003c\/em\u003e's frenzied profusion of detail... \u003cem\u003e\"Webster's — that's for Charlie Webster; I'd forgotten all about him. He was the art director at EMI, when we were doing this cover. This Cyrillic above the words Pizza Hot, I think it says sour milk in Russian, if I recall correctly (note: this might also refer to yogurt, or something short and to the point to designate a store that sold milk and other dairy products, in Russia). The Chinese there... I copied it from a Chinese or Japanese magazine, and it was an advert for zit cream. I copied it, I wrote it down, and a friend of mine, who is Chinese says, Why did you write that in there?' I said, 'I got it out of a magazine.' And he says, 'Do you know what it says?' And I said no. And he translated it for me, and said — because a lot of Chinese is based on context — As far as I can tell, that says: Danger, yellow bikini.' \u003c\/em\u003e(laughs).\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"And Eddie's got a nuclear-powered willie,\"\u003c\/em\u003e continues Derek, pointing out the biohazard sign on Ed's crotch-plate. And the cramped hand rising from the lower right? \u003cem\u003e\"That's a joke! It goes way back to Creature From The Black Lagoon. Now, the Creature From The Black Lagoon, the original black-and-white thing, was done in 3-D. He comes out from the lagoon and he kind of rips up somebody's tent and kills them. That shot, from the Black Lagoon, all these victims, they've all got one hand like that. They're lying on the ground and they've all got one hand sticking up like this. And it's a joke amongst horror fans — always that hand. So that's what that is. And Eddie's actually in the pose that toy soldiers take up. That pose was always used by soldiers or cowboys. I never really knew why they were standing like that, because they weren't actually doing anything. Why is he pointing his gun at the ceiling, dad?' 'I don't know, son.'\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd that space age toaster trailing Eddie? \u003cem\u003e\"That's his spaceship; it's what he rides around in. It looks just a bit peculiar — I just wanted a little buggy.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdds Derek on the busy text seemingly everywhere, \u003cem\u003e\"I just wanted lots of logos. If you go around town, it's all company logos. So I had to invent company logos, in order to make it look like a town. Bradbury Towers, that's a statement, not the name of the building — Ray Bradbury Towers. See, in Blade Runner, the building that he's in, I think it's called Bradbury Villa or something like that. It's referring to that; it's a science fiction joke.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEddie is posed next to a street sign which partially reads Acacia, a reference to \u003cem\u003eThe Number Of The Beast\u003c\/em\u003e song 22 \u003cem\u003eAcacia Avenue \u003c\/em\u003eand below that, \u003cem\u003e\"That's the very first Iron Maiden poster there. And right in the middle on the front, that's the lamp post from the very first cover, complete with sign and garbage can. It all feeds back on itself. Icarus is falling off the top of that building on the back. There's some Jewish — it's God written in the shape of a man, deep mystical stuff; Jews pick up on it. That would be Caballic stuff.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Herbert Ails? \u003cem\u003e\"There's a song on Piece Of Mind called ‘To Tame A Land’, and it's about Dune. They phoned up Frank Herbert and asked if they could call the song Dune, and Frank Herbert said, 'No, you can't call it Dune. And you can't do anything based on my book, because I think rock 'n' roll is decadent and corrupt.' So they put Herbert Ails, as in, Herbert's not very well \u003c\/em\u003e(laughs)\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd they've got the football scores there, and Live After Death and Blade Runner showing at the cinema; Phantom Opera House, as in Phantom Of The Opera. Ruskin Arms, that's the pub they used to go to, and Rainbow, that's The Rainbow pub in LA. L'Amours is in New York. Hammerjacks is a nightclub in Baltimore they used to go to. There's the TARDIS from Doctor Who. Doctor Who flies around in a time machine called a TARDIS (time and relative dimensions in space). The time machine had a chameleon circuit to make it blend in with the background, but he landed in 1960s London, and it disguised itself as a police phone box, which were around in 1961 or something. But the chameleon circuit broke and it got stuck as a phone box. So he's flying around in a time machine that looks like a 1961 phone box.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There's Fireball XL5, which most people don't remember — this had all the spaceships in it, didn't it? Jerry Anderson had Thunderbirds and Stingray, and one his early ones was called Fireball XL5 and it was a rocket ship. The one before that was called Supercar. You have to get one of the DVDs; they were brilliant, better than Star Wars (laughs). And that big thing there, that's a pyramid, and we've got death floating around, and there's the Tyrell Corporation in the background. That's the name of the corporation in Blade Runner. They're the company that makes the clones that Harrison Ford is trying to shoot. The Mekong Lives In LA. is written just to the right of that. The Mekong is in Dan Dare, a science fiction comic book from the 1920s, 'Dan Dare, pilot of the future.' You don't know Dan Dare, pilot of the future?! Good God, man, culturally deprived! \u003c\/em\u003e(laughs)\u003cem\u003e.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContinuing the tour, Derek points out that\u003cem\u003e, \"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 \u003c\/em\u003e(laughs)\u003cem\u003e. 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...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"And with Eddie,\"\u003c\/em\u003e says Derek, getting back to the core of the busy shot, \u003cem\u003e\"the whole concept was that it carried on from one album to the next, which is why he kept the artificial eye and all the things that happened to him. I just like rolling him on like that, seeing what you could do with him next, which parts you could keep.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOther interesting tidbits include the clock set at two minutes to midnight, the football score with \u003cem\u003eWest Ham \u003c\/em\u003enaturally ahead, a namedrop for Philip K. Dick, who wrote the book \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e was based on, Nicko's Iron What? T-shirt, the \u003cem\u003eEye Of Horus\u003c\/em\u003e, the cat with halo, the Asimov Foundation building, and Tehe's Bar, the place where the band copped some backup vocalists for use on \u003cem\u003eHeaven Can Wait\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"For Somewhere In Time, Eddie is stripped down as a robot. Now this was a difficult single, this Wasted Years. We had to have something that had Eddie in it somehow, but we didn't want to preempt the album look of Eddie. Because it would take the shock away from what we did to Eddie, right? We didn't want to give away the game before we started. So we were stuck, for what we could do. You try illustrating Wasted Years. What do you do? If you put four guys on there playing guitar, and you put the title, Wasted Years, it looks like they've been wasting their time playing guitar. If you have a picture of Eddie chopping people up, it's like, he's been wasting all these years chopping people up; what can you do? Whatever you do, it turns it into a negative.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"So we said, we couldn't use Eddie too much, because it was such a radical change to Eddie, that even giving a bit of Eddie away, wed kind of blow it. So, I think, Rod said what about using him as a reflection in something, so you could only see part of his head. So you can't really see what's going on, but it's still got Eddie on it. So we played with that for a bit, and we said, what about a time machine? You know, wasted years\/time machine. And that was the only idea we could find that could work properly, and fulfill all the specifications of what we needed to do with it. It's got a TARDIS in it again, that spaceship that looks like the police phone box. So it's a duffer. 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It was also the first album to be produced by bassist and band founder Steve Harris, and the last album to feature the work of producer Martin Birch, who retired after its release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Fear Of The Dark”\u003c\/em\u003e also marks the first time in Maiden's career when the cover artwork is not by Derek Riggs. The 'new' Eddie was eventually supplied by Melvyn Grant. The band actually took the somewhat surprising step of inviting other artists as well as Eddie-originator Derek Riggs to come up with ideas for the \u003cem\u003e“Fear Of The Dark”\u003c\/em\u003e sleeve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFear of the Dark (live)\u003c\/em\u003e\", according to Riggs shows Eddie as Steve Harris. 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