Martin Birch

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Martin Birch is a British rock and heavy metal music producer.

[edit] Career

Martin Birch became internationally renowned for engineering and producing the legendary albums by the British rock bands Deep Purple and Iron Maiden.

Birch has also produced and engineered albums for numerous artists, such as Deep Purple-related projects (Rainbow, Paice, Ashton & Lord, Whitesnake, Roger Glover, Jon Lord), but also Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs and Blue Öyster Cult. On Fleetwood Mac's album Mystery to Me (1973) he is also credited playing acoustic guitar.

The song "Hard Lovin' Man" from the Deep Purple album In Rock is dedicated to him.[citation needed]

He retired around 1992, after producing Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark album. Birch appears on Iron Maiden's music video "Holy Smoke".

[edit] Selected discography

Sources: [1], Discogs

[edit] For Fleetwood Mac

[edit] For Deep Purple

[edit] For Wishbone Ash

[edit] For Rainbow

[edit] For Whitesnake

[edit] For Black Sabbath

[edit] For Blue Öyster Cult

[edit] For Iron Maiden

[edit] For other artists

[edit] External links

  1. ^ Martin Birch at artistdirect.com