Time to remember visionary album designer

Andie Airfix created some of the world's most famous album covers but is only just being officially recognised in his home town through a new exhibition

Graphic designer Andie Airfix, who created Def Leppard’s Pyromania album cover

He was the graphic designer whose cover for Def Leppard’s Pyromania album would help revamp the band’s image ready for mainstream success. His work on a boxset for Paul McCartney was name-checked by the ex-Beatle in Billboard Magazine. When Metallica headlined Glastonbury in 2…