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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox musical artist Martin Phillip Birch (27 December 1948Template:Spnd9 August 2020) was a British music producer and sound engineer. He became renowned for engineering and producing albums recorded predominantly by British rock and metal bands, including Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fleetwood Mac, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.<ref name="Beaumont-thomas">Template:Cite news</ref>

BiographyEdit

Birch was born on 27 December 1948 in Woking, Surrey.<ref name="Beaumont-thomas"/> He began his career in music as an audio engineer with Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple, producing and engineering eleven albums for the latter. In 1980, coming from the "Deep Purple camp",<ref name="McIver">Template:Cite book</ref> he was called upon by Black Sabbath for Heaven and Hell. The band's previous albums had been self-produced and they were happy to let Birch, who had worked with Ronnie James Dio before, produce them.<ref name="Mudrian2009">Template:Cite book</ref> His "bright midrange" on the album is especially noted.<ref name="Daniels2012"/> He began a long tenure working exclusively with Iron Maiden in 1981, producing and engineering Killers and retiring from working with other bands for a while.<ref name="Daniels2012">Template:Cite book</ref>

Birch also produced and engineered albums for numerous artists. These included Deep Purple-related projects (Rainbow,<ref name="Beaumont-thomas"/> Paice Ashton Lord,<ref name=AllMusic/> Whitesnake,<ref name="Beaumont-thomas"/> Roger Glover,<ref name=AllMusic/> and Jon Lord),<ref name=AllMusic/> but also encompassed Wayne County & the Electric Chairs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> On Fleetwood Mac's album Mystery to Me (1973) he is also credited playing acoustic guitar.<ref name=AllMusic/> The song "Hard Lovin' Man" from the Deep Purple album Deep Purple in Rock is dedicated to him: "For Martin Birch – catalyst".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Birch retired in 1992, after producing Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark album.<ref name="Beaumont-thomas"/> It was the last of the ten records he produced with the group.<ref name="BBC obit">Template:Cite news</ref> He appeared in Iron Maiden's music video "Holy Smoke" two years before his retirement.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Birch died on 9 August 2020, at age 71.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The cause of death was undisclosed.<ref name="Beaumont-thomas" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Initial tributes were paid by David Coverdale and Geezer Butler.<ref name="BBC obit" /> Members of Iron Maiden offered a lengthy tribute to Birch on their official website, with Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and Rod Smallwood reflecting on his personality and his time working with the band.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected discographyEdit

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Fleetwood MacEdit

Deep PurpleEdit

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Jon LordEdit

  • 1971 – Gemini Suite (engineer)
  • 1976 – Sarabande (producer, engineer, remixing)

Bernie MarsdenEdit

  • 1979– And About Time Too (producer, engineer)

Wishbone AshEdit

RainbowEdit

WhitesnakeEdit

Black SabbathEdit

Blue Öyster CultEdit

Iron MaidenEdit

Other artistsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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