R.I. P. Martin Birch

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Martin Birch was born 27 December 1948 and died 9 August 2020. He was a British music producer who produced albums for, among others, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Whitesnake and Blue Öyster Cult. He also worked as a producer on Fleetwood Macs and The Faces’ first releases.

He quit as a producer around 1993, after producing Iron Maiden’s album Fear Of The Dark, plus helping with the production of the album Black Sabbath: The Dio Years by Black Sabbath.