Martin 'Star-Fish' Birch is a British former music producer and sound engineer , who became renowned for engineering and producing albums by the British Rock bands Deep Purple , Iron Maiden and Fleetwood Mac
Martin Birch was born on December 27, 1948. 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", he was called upon by Black Sabbath for Heaven and Hell Ronnie James Dio before, produce them. His "bright midrange" on the album is especially noted. In 1981 he began a long tenure working exclusively with Iron Maiden , producing and engineering Killers
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 Wayne County & the Electric Chairs. On Fleetwood Mac's album Mystery to Me acoustic guitar .
The song "Hard Lovin' Man" from the Deep Purple album Deep Purple in Rock
He retired in 1992, after producing Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark Holy Smoke ".
Sources: Martin Birch at artistdirect.com, Discogs
1969 - Then Play On 1970 - Kiln House 1972 - Bare Trees (engineer) 1973 - Penguin 1973 - Mystery to Me 1969 - Concerto for Group and Orchestra 1970 - Deep Purple in Rock 1971 - Fireball 1972 - Machine Head 1972 - Made in Japan 1973 - Who Do We Think We Are 1974 - Burn 1974 - Stormbringer 1975 - Come Taste the Band 1976 - Made in Europe 1977 - Last Concert in Japan 1971 Jon Lord - Gemini Suite (engineer) 1976 Jon Lord - Sarabande (producer, engineer, remixing) 1974 Tony Ashton & Jon Lord - First of the Big Bands 1977 Paice, Ashton & Lord - Malice in Wonderland 1970 - Wishbone Ash 1971 - Pilgrimage 1972 - Argus 1975 - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (co-producer, engineer, mixing) 1976 - Rising 1977 - On Stage 1978 - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 1986 - Finyl Vinyl 1978 - Snakebite 1978 - Trouble 1978 - Live at Hammersmith (producer) 1979 - Lovehunter 1980 - Ready an' Willing 1980 - Live...In the Heart of the City (producer, engineer) - recorded live in 1978 and 1980 1981 - Come an' Get It 1982 - Saints & Sinners (producer, engineer, mixing) 1984 - Slide It In 1980 - Heaven and Hell 1981 - Mob Rules 1980 - Cultösaurus Erectus (producer, engineer) 1981 - Fire of Unknown Origin 1981 - Killers 1982 - The Number of the Beast 1983 - Piece of Mind 1984 - Powerslave 1985 - Live After Death 1986 - Somewhere in Time 1988 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 1990 - No Prayer for the Dying 1992 - Fear of the Dark 1969 Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola 1970 Peter Green - The End of the Game 1970 The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb 1971 Stackridge - Stackridge 1971 Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker - Hooker 'N' Heat (Mixdown Engineer) - recorded in 1970 1971 Skid Row - 34 Hours 1971 Toad - Toad 1971 Faces - Long Player 1971 Jodo "Guts" LP (engineer) 1972 Silverhead - Silverhead (producer) 1972 Toad - Tomorrow Blue (engineer) 1972 Flash - Flash (engineer) 1972 Flash - In the Can (engineer) 1973 Gary Moore - Grinding Stone 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 1979 Cozy Powell - Over the Top 1982 Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack 
