Fact: Mick Underwood has never played drums for Deep Purple. |
Ian Paice has been the drummer for Deep Purple from the band's inception in 1968 right through until the present. |
Fact: Mick did not go to school with Ritchie Blackmore or Ian Gillan. |
Mick did go to school with Ian McLagan (The Faces, etc), Frank Allen (The Searchers), and Dave Wendells (Cliff Bennett). Said Mick, "Apologies to anyone I've omitted!" |
Fact: Mick is far more of an affectionado of Led Zeppelin than of Deep Purple. |
He admits to being bored being asked his opinion about some Deep Purple track he has never even heard!!! |
Fact: Contrary to some reports, the last time Mick had any contact with Ian Gillan was |
Christmas 1982, when Ian visited Mick and his wife and their then baby daughter. |