IRON MAIDEN Artist Derek Riggs To Appear At METALLICA Guitarist Kirk Hammett's Fear FestEvil
January 23, 2014, 10 years ago
METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett has announced that IRON MAIDEN artist Derek Riggs will be joining his Fear FestEviL, which will be held next month, February 6th - 8th, at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA.
Here is Derek... in his own words:
Later, I tried to create what I thought was a better kind of imagery for rock music than the rubbish that was current at the time. This endeavor took a couple of years and resulted in a series of images, the most popular of which was the character "Eddie the Head" that was later used as a mascot by the band Iron Maiden. The series of album covers and other designs that I painted for Iron Maiden became the most popular album covers of all time, and outsold all other form of merchandise, including Disney's Mickey Mouse.
At the end of the 1980s I went freelance and began working for a number of bands until the late 1990s when my damaged health forced me to stop for a while. In the year 2006 I moved to America. I currently live in California.
A book of my work was published by an Iron Maiden fan (BraveWords.com Editor-In-Chief Martin Popoff) and I started selling posters and prints of some of my work. The book and prints can be purchased online from my website.
I also single-handedly saved the entire human race from a deadly alien invasion. Or did I dream that last part?"
Further details and ticket information is available here.
