![]() ![]() It's your fifth birthday, and we've got a very special surprise for you.' 'Oh no,' says Eddie. 'Son,' he says, 'today's a very special day. So five years go by, and there's Eddie the 'Ead, as his parents have called him, sitting on the mantelpiece, when in walks his dad. 'Bring him back in five years time, and we'll probably have a body for him'. "A wife had a baby, but it was born with only a head and no body. According to guitarist Dave Murray the name was also inspired by an old joke: The band's bassist and founding member Steve Harris states that the name "Eddie" comes from the original mask being referred to as "The Head", which sounded like "Ead" in the band members' London accent. After this initial incarnation, Beazley constructed a larger mask out of fibreglass, equipped with flashing eyes and the ability to release red smoke from its mouth. At the end of their live set, during the "Iron Maiden" song, a fish tank pump was used to squirt fake blood out of the mask's mouth, which typically covered their then-drummer Doug Sampson. According to Beazley, the original mask was a papier-mâché mould of his own face, which was then used in the band's backdrop, consisting of lights and the band's logo. The first version of Eddie was a mask made by an art student who was friends with Dave "Lights" Beazley, then in charge of lighting, pyrotechnics and other effects for Iron Maiden's live show. Although he is occasionally described as "zombie-like" in the press, Eddie assumes a different guise relating to the themes of individual albums and their corresponding world tours, and has appeared as a cyborg, an Egyptian mummy and a lobotomised mental patient, amongst others. Originally a papier-mâché mask used in Iron Maiden's stage backdrop, the band transferred the name "Eddie" from the mask to an illustration by Derek Riggs, which was used as the band's debut album cover. On top of this, Eddie features in all of the band's concerts, as well as in the first-person shooter video game, Ed Hunter, the mobile game, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast and a pinball game with the same name in 2018. He is a perennial fixture of the group's artwork, appearing in all of their album covers (as well as most of their singles) and in their merchandise, which includes T-shirts, posters and action figures. ![]() Head over to the Download website for more information.Eddie (also known as Eddie the Head) is the mascot for the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden are headlining Download TV on Saturday, June 13, live on YouTube. More than 30 years on, it remains an absolute metal classic and one that has rarely been matched, let alone beaten. Magical concept aside, it also saw the band at their musical best – dynamic, punchy and epic all at the same time. ![]() “It’s a classic story of good versus evil, only with no guarantees whatsoever that it’s the good guys who eventually come through,” said Bruce of the tale of a boy with supernatural powers. “For me, it’s like the enormous leap we suddenly made from our first two albums to releasing Number Of The Beast – very much a step forward, a step up.” It seems many of you agree as you’ve voted the band’s ’80s peak and only true concept album as Iron Maiden’s finest hour. “We’ve never managed to pull anything like this off before,” Steve Harris told K! shortly before the release of Seventh Son…. ![]()
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