Vic Coppersmith-Heaven

Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
Birth name	Victor Smith
Born	England
Occupation(s)	Sound engineer, record producer
Years active	1961–present
Associated acts	The Jam, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, various

Vic Coppersmith-Heaven (born Victor Smith in England) is an English sound engineer and record producer, best known for his production work with The Jam.

Smith worked in the recording studios at Polydor after leaving school in 1961. By 1967 he worked as the engineer on Cat Stevens' album Matthew and Son, and on The Rolling Stones', Let It Bleed. Smith then engineered other hits such as "Honky Tonk Women" and Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends". In early 1968 he produced the Nashville Teens' recording of "All Along the Watchtower", the earliest cover version of Bob Dylan's song, which was released as a single in the UK and Europe on Decca Records some six months before Jimi Hendrix's hit version.

He produced a number of artists including Sunforest for Nova, Deram Records's short-lived prog rock record label in 1969 and Tinkerbells Fairydust. Sunforest was a psyche-folk all female American trio, two tracks of which, "Overture to the Sun" and "Lighthouse Keeper", later emerged in a re-recorded form on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's film, A Clockwork Orange. Smith also produced Peter Sarstedt's third United Artists album, Every Word You Say (Is Written Down), in 1971.

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