Martin Birch is a British rock and heavy metal music producer, who became renowned for engineering and producing 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 Deep Purple in Rock is dedicated to him : "For Martin Birch - catalyst".[2]
He retired around 1992, after producing Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark album. Birch appears on Iron Maiden's music video "Holy Smoke".
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Selected discography
For Fleetwood Mac
- 1969 Then Play On (engineer)
- 1970 Kiln House (engineer)
- 1972 Bare Trees (engineer)
- 1973 Penguin (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1973 Mystery to Me (producer, engineer, guitar)
For Deep Purple
- 1969 Concerto for Group and Orchestra (engineer)
- 1970 Deep Purple in Rock (engineer)
- 1971 Fireball (engineer)
- 1972 Machine Head (engineer)
- 1972 Made in Japan (engineer)
- 1973 Who Do We Think We Are (engineer)
- 1974 Burn (engineer, mixing)
- 1974 Stormbringer (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1975 Come Taste the Band (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1976 Made in Europe (producer, engineer, mixing)- recorded live in April 1975
- 1977 Last Concert in Japan (producer, engineer) - recorded live in December 1975
For Wishbone Ash
- 1970 Wishbone Ash (engineer)
- 1971 Pilgrimage (engineer)
- 1972 Argus (engineer)
For Rainbow
- 1975 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1976 Rising (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1977 On Stage (producer, engineer, mixing) - recorded live in 1976
- 1978 Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1986 Finyl Vinyl (producer) - collection
For Whitesnake
- 1978 Snakebite (producer)
- 1978 Trouble (producer)
- 1978 Live at Hammersmith (producer)
- 1979 Lovehunter (producer, engineer)
- 1980 Ready an' Willing (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1980 Live...In the Heart of the City (producer, engineer) - recorded live in 1978 and 1980
- 1981 Come an' Get It (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1982 Saints & Sinners (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1984 Slide It In (producer)
For Black Sabbath
- 1980 Heaven and Hell (producer, engineer)
- 1981 Mob Rules (producer, engineer)
For Blue Öyster Cult
- 1980 Cultösaurus Erectus (producer, engineer)
- 1981 Fire of Unknown Origin (producer, engineer)
For Iron Maiden
- 1981 Killers (producer, engineer)
- 1982 The Number of the Beast (producer, engineer)
- 1983 Piece of Mind (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1984 Powerslave (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1985 Live After Death (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1986 Somewhere in Time (producer, engineer)
- 1988 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1990 No Prayer for the Dying (producer, engineer, mixing)
- 1992 Fear of the Dark (producer, engineer, mixing)
For other artists
- 1969 Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola (Cosa Nostra) (engineer)
- 1970 Peter Green - The End of the Game (engineer)
- 1970 The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb (engineer)
- 1971 Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker - Hooker 'N' Heat (Mixdown Engineer) - recorded in 1970
- 1971 Jon Lord - Gemini Suite (engineer)
- 1971 Skid Row - 34 Hours (engineer)
- 1971 Toad - Toad (engineer)
- 1971 Faces - Long Player (engineer)
- 1972 Silverhead - Silverhead (producer)
- 1972 Toad - Tomarrow Blue (engineer)
- 1972 Flash - Flash (engineer)
- 1972 Flash - In the Can (engineer)
- 1973 Gary Moore - Grinding Stone (producer, engineer)
- 1974 Tony Ashton & Jon Lord - First of the Big Bands (engineer)
- 1976 Jon Lord - Sarabande (producer, engineer, remixing)
- 1977 Paice, Ashton & Lord - Malice in Wonderland (engineer)
- 1978 The Electric Chairs-"The Electric Chairs"(producer)
- 1978 Wayne County & the Electric Chairs - Storm The Gates Of Heaven (producer)
- 1978 Wayne County & the Electric Chairs - Blatantly Offensive E.P. (producer)
- 1978 Roger Glover - Elements (producer)
- 1979 Cozy Powell - Over the Top (producer)
- 1982 Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack (producer, engineer)
- 2008 Branimir Piljic Rocks & Roll's - Number One (producer)
References
- ^ Martin Birch at artistdirect.com
Martin Birch other artists, Mainland title Exposure 1979 1979 Mainland Exposure Producer
[2] Deep Purple In Rock inlay
1970 - Harvest / EMI Records Inc.
External links
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