Vic Flick, guitarist on the James Bond theme, dies aged 87

Vic Flick, the famed British session musician who picked out the famous jangly guitar motif on the James Bond theme song, has died aged 87. The musician’s son, Kevin Flick announced his father died on 14 November, after having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Surrey in 1937, Flick had previously performed with the composer John Barry in the John Barry Seven, when Barry was brought in to rearrange Monty Norman’s theme for Dr No, the first James Bond film. The theme song was recorded in 1962; Flick played the famous riff on a 1939 English Clifford Essex Paragon

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