"It's got Eddie burning Icarus up with a flamethrower thing. "I don't think it worked terribly well,' says Derek, of his somewhat rough painting for this - nice composition, but hurried execution, also painted in Jersey. The trundling, authoritative Flight Of Icarus was floated as Piece Of Mind's first single, arriving in the shops a month before the album proper.
And no, there's nothing sitting in the archives that hasn't been used."ĭerek's illustration for Flight Of icarus single Later artworks, we would pass around ideas, get to a certain stage, go through it with the guys and then between us, sort of fine-tune it to what we liked.
I mean Food For Thought was it for a while (laughs), with the brain, but then Piece Of Mind sort of appeared, and that just seemed to be stronger. "Steve thought about Eddie in a padded cell, which I thought was not quite enough, and it was my idea to lobotomize him. "Piece Of Mind was teamwork," opines Rod. That's what he said - whether he meant it literally, I don't know."
Seriously, the tour manager told me they pushed it off a cliff somewhere. Apparently they lost it somewhere, pushed it off a cliff or something. So they had this giant bloody pink thing that was no use to them. "And the person who arranged the shipping, they put it on a quango, so it all goes through customs in one go, and you can't change it, so whereas, where I thought it would be coming back to England with me, it all ended up going on tour with Maiden around the world. And they're all looking at it going, 'What the hell is that?!"
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So I packed this thing full of paints and whatnot, and they picked it up and took it to Jersey, and it turns up in Jersey, and there's all these big black macho flight cases, Iron Maiden stenciled on the side in big letters, and there's this big pink thing with blue wheels. And it's upright on blue wheels, bright pink - Barbie pink - with this aluminum trim they put around it shiny chrome trim with big blue wheels(laughs)ĭerek's illustration for" World Piece tour 1983" It's six foot high, three foot wide, four and a half foot long. So they said, 'Well, talk to this bloke he makes our cases.' So I talked to this guy, and I said, 'I've got this idea for an easel kind of thing, with the paints in it and stuff,' and he said, 'What color do you want it?' And I said, 'What do you got?' It was that flight case stuff, which only comes in black, but he said, 'Well, I've got a lot of pink left over from something.' I said, 'Do it pink, then.' So, anyway, the wheels on a flight cases are bright blue. And I was thinking a little guitar flight case or something - stuff paints in it. I had to transfer some paints, because you can't buy stuff out there it's a little island. They recorded the album in Nassau, but they did all the practice and the working out in Jersey, because you can't do that in the studio, unless you're insane (laughs). I got stuck in a hotel and I was painting a lot, and that was it. My main memory is that it was cold and windy. "Maiden was renting a hotel out there, practicing and rehearsing the "I got shipped out to Jersey, one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel," recalls Derek. The exotic life of a band swiftly on their way to the top can indeed include perks for its cover artist, even if the glamour of the situation turns out to be more talk than walk.
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