PRINT DETAILS: Metallica Helping Hands. 18 x 24. Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 500. Comes with a Digital Certificate of Authenticity provided by Verisart. Purchased Dec 17th, 2024. sold out in 24 hoursFrom Artist :Metallica asked me to create the poster for their Helping Hands concert which benefits some great causes. This print celebrates triumph over adversity while acknowledging that life is fragile and it’s in our hands to build the world we want for ourselves and our brothers and sisters. I first heard Metallica in 1985 when a Charleston, South Carolina public radio show called Punk-O-Rama, which was on the air from 12-2 AM on Saturday nights, decided to do a speed metal show instead of the usual punk and hardcore. At the time, punk and metal fans were enemies and had rival camps like the Sharks and the Jets. When Punk-O-Rama opened with Metallica’s song “Fight Fire With Fire,” I was skeptical, but it burst into music that was so fast and heavy that it made me bounce off the walls! I was hooked immediately and picked up Metallica’s album Ride the Lightning, which featured the song “Fade to Black'Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989, he designed the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campaign. Fairey designed the the iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
