Top 10 Albums Produced by Martin Birch

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

He worked with many metal and rock bands but became renowned for engineering the first 11 Deep Purple albums and producing the first 9 Iron Maiden albums.

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

If you are a metal fan, you know how important this song was for creating metal.

Martin Birch was THE metal producer at the earlier stages of metal music.
The Top Ten
1 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

Producer, engineer

2 Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Well... another producer added to my favorites

Producer, engineer, mixing

3 Rising - Rainbow

Producer, engineer, mixing

4 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

Producer, engineer

5 Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

Producer, engineer, mixing

6 No Prayer for the Dying - Iron Maiden
7 Mob Rules - Black Sabbath

Producer, engineer

8 Stormbringer - Deep Purple
9 Long Live Rock 'n' Roll - Rainbow

Producer, engineer, mixing

10 Live After Death - Iron Maiden

Producer, engineer, mixing

The Contenders
11 Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
12 Killers - Iron Maiden
13 Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake

With the original "Here I Go Again" on it, "Crying in the Rain", "Rough an' Ready"

14 Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
15 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
16 Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Oyster Cult

Producer, engineer

17 Assault Attack - The Michael Schenker Group
18 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
19 On Stage - Rainbow
20 Slide It In - Whitesnake
21 Ready An' Willing - Whitesnake

Fool for Your Loving, Love Man, Ready an' Willing

22 Cultosaurus Erectus - Blue Oyster Cult
23 Grinding Stone - The Gary Moore Band

This is Gary Moore's debut album (1973). He co-produced it and helped a talent.

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