"Wasted Years" ( Live in Milan, Italy 1999)Ģ000 ~ Out of the Silent Planet (1986 ~ Somewhere in Time) " Futureal" ( Live in Helsinki, Finland 1999)Ģ000 ~ The Wicker Man (1998 ~ Virtual XI) "The Aftermath" ( Live in Gothenburg, Sweden 1995) "Blood on the World's Hands" ( Live in Gothenburg, Sweden 1995)ġ998 ~ The Angel and the Gambler (1995 ~ The X Factor) "Roll Over Vic Vella" ( Cover of " Roll Over Beethoven") (with different lyrics) "I Can't See My Feelings" ( Budgie cover) " Communication Breakdown" ( Led Zeppelin cover) "Kill Me Ce Soir" ( Golden Earring cover)ġ990 ~ Bring Your Daughter. " King of Twilight" ( Nektar cover) (includes parts of "Crying in the Dark")Īndy Barnett, Merv Goldsworthy, Pete Juppġ988 ~ The Evil That Men Do (1980 ~ Iron Maiden) "Remember Tomorrow" ( Live in Padua, Italy 1981)ġ982 ~ The Number of the Beast (1980 ~ Iron Maiden) The album is described on the band's website as "a collection that not only reveals much about the band as individuals and the inherent character of the band, but also provides a real insight into who and where their influences came from." Track listing Disc One Also missing are the band's cover of Thin Lizzy's "Massacre" (from " Can I Play with Madness", 1988) and a number of live B-sides. In 1981 the album Killers is released and the cover literally nails the image of Eddie making it so prestigious icon even to this day. It covers all of their singles from their first (1980's " Running Free") to 2000's " Out of the Silent Planet", although several of the band's original B-sides were excluded from the collection: "Total Eclipse" (from " Run to the Hills", 1982, although this has been added to the album The Number of the Beast from 1998 onwards), "Mission From 'Arry" (from " 2 Minutes to Midnight", 1984) "Bayswater Ain't a Bad Place to Be" (from " Be Quick or Be Dead", 1992) and "I Live My Way" (from " Man on the Edge", 1995). Each track was remastered and the set came with a running commentary from Rod Smallwood.
#IRON MAIDEN EDDIE KILLERS ARCHIVE#
You just can't keep a good Eddie down.Best of the 'B' Sides is a compilation of B-sides by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 4 November 2002 as part of the Eddie's Archive box set. Keep your eyes open - the original paintings often turn up on eBay for sale. They lost quite a few of them over the years.
"Maiden might still have the original," he says, "although I think it's one of the Eddies that escaped their clutches. Sadly, Riggs' original Killers painting may have been lost to posterity. We used so much stuff trying to kill them off that I ended up getting pesticide poisoning." "It was a bit rundown in those days and it had cockroaches all over the place. "The buildings in the background are actually the block of apartments that I lived in at that time in North London called Etchingham Court," he explains. The original Killers painting, done in a type of watercolor called designer's gauche, was 12-and-a-half inches square, and took Riggs about a week to paint. Eddie was not 'developed,' Eddie is just there."
But really, it's just me making it up as I go along. His hair got a bit Farrah Fawcett, but that was OK back then, because there was this kind of fashion for big fluffy hair with rock bands, so people didn't really notice. Eddie has an ax because he's an 'axman' - it's a pun on the term for a rock-and-roll guitarist. I fill up the space and then start putting things into it. "But I never sat down and said 'Now I am going to make him look this way or that way.' I'm very spontaneous when I create a picture - sometimes I don't even use a sketch to begin with. "The Killers picture was done about three years after the first one was painted," he says. With a fuller head of hair, a sinister grin, and a bloody hatchet in hand, the new Eddie could well be seen as a portent of the group's impending split with then-singer Paul Di'Anno (he would be given "the ax" before the year was out) and his subsequent replacement with much longer-locked (at the time) frontman Bruce Dickinson.ĭespite the marked difference between the original Eddie and his Killers successor, Riggs says the character's development was not a conscious process. But while the Eddie that appeared on Iron Maiden looked frazzled and vacant, the character that graced Killers was vicious and self-possessed. (Riggs would go on to do all of Maiden's covers for the next 20 years and recently put out the book Run For Cover: The Art Of Derek Riggs). In 1981, New Wave Of British Heavy Metal legends Iron Maiden released their second album, Killers, featuring such perennial classics as "Wrathchild" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue." Artist Derek Riggs had already created the infamous "Eddie" mascot that appears on the cover of the band's self-titled 1980 debut - a painting he actually did a year before Maiden even existed - so it was only natural for him to get the nod for Killers, as well.
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