Vic Flick, James Bond theme song guitarist, dies at 87

Vic Flick, the guitarist connected the famous James Bond taxable song, has died. He was 87.

The British league instrumentalist died past Thursday from Alzheimer’s disease, his household announced.

Flick was brought successful by composer John Barry to rearrange Monty Norman’s archetypal taxable for 1962’s “Dr. No,” the archetypal James Bond movie.

In a 2021 interrogation with Guitar Player magazine, Flick said helium had to marque immoderate DIY changes to his guitar to get the songs’ twangy, surf stone dependable conscionable right.

“The recorded dependable was owed to the plectrum I utilized and the guitar’s strings,” helium said. “I placed the DeArmond pickup adjacent the bridge. I enactment a crushed cigaret packet underneath it to get it nearer the strings. That helped to get that circular sound.

“Also important was the mode the guitar was recorded. It was picked up by the mics for the orchestra, and it gave the guitar a mysterious, almighty sound. It was a dependable we created, to a definite extent, and it had a wound that they loved.”

He went connected to play connected respective different Bond themes, including Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.”

He memorably played connected Petula Clark’s “Downtown,” Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual” and successful the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night. He  besides collaborated with Jimmy Page, Herman’s Hermits, Eric Clapton, Dusty Springfield and others.

“He was a musician’s musician,” Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues wrote successful the foreword to Flick’s 2008 memoir “Vic Flick Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond.”

Flick was calved connected May, 14, 1937, successful Surrey, England. He is survived by his woman Judith and lad Kevin, arsenic good arsenic 1 grandchild, according to BBC News.