Top 10 Albums Engineered by Martin Birch

Martin 'Star-Fish' Birch (born Dec 27, 1948) is a British music producer, sound engineer and mixer.

He worked with many metal and rock bands but became renowned for engineering Deep Purple's first 11 albums and Iron Maiden's first 9 albums. He also produced Maiden's first 9 albums.

Deep Purple dedicated to him the song "Hard Lovin' Man" from their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock: "For Martin Birch - catalyst".

In 1970 probably nobody knew it but this was the song that pretty much invented the template for metal music.

Martin Birch knew how metal and hard rock should sound even when metal wasn't a thing. He is a genius who teamed up with other genius people.

He also produced many of these albums.

The Top Ten

1 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

2 Deep Purple in Rock - Deep Purple

With the song "Hard Lovin' Man" on it - a song Deep Purple dedicated to Martin Birch.

3 Rising - Rainbow

4 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

5 Machine Head - Deep Purple

It wasn't easy to be the sound engineer of this album because it was recorded under extreme circumstances and several old mattresses served as sound-insulating "equipment".
Read more in the list 'Moments From the Real Story Of Deep Purple's Album 'Machine Head' that Can Make a Great Movie Plot'

6 Powerslave - Iron Maiden