Trivia

He is the distinctive guitarist you hear every time the original 'James Bond Theme' is played on radio, TV or in the cinema. He recorded it with John Barry's Orchestra at CTS Studios, Bayswater, London for the film and again a few weeks later at Abbey Road Studios, London for the hit single. This was in the summer of 1962.

Member and erstwhile leader of The John Barry Seven pop band.

He plays solo guitar on 'This Boy' (Ringo's Theme'), heard in the film, A Hard Day's Night (1964).

Composer, guitarist and arranger of pop songs for leading vocalists.

His biography, Vic Flick, Guitarman, was published in August 2008.

His guitar sound was also heard on the theme to two long-running British TV programmes. Juke Box Jury (1959) for which the hit-single theme was 'Hit & Miss' composed by John Barry and Crossroads (1964), composed by Tony Hatch.

Las Vegas, Nevada - publicizing his auto-biography: Vic Flick Guitarman. (August 2008)

With the The George Martin Orchestra, he plays solo guitar, using his Olympic white 1961 Fender Stratocaster, on the song "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)" of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964), heard on the American soundtrack album.

In 2003, he recorded the album James Bond Now, featuring tracks from James Bond movies and new compositions.

He recorded with Herman's Hermits, playing the distinctive guitar riff in the intro and bridge of "Silhouettes", a 1965 UK Top 5 hit.

On 5 October 2012, Vic Flick was honoured at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for "The Music of Bond: The First 50 Years." He played the "James Bond Theme" to a live audience, on his 1939 Clifford Essex Paragon De Luxe "James Bond" Guitar.

One of Flick's guitars, a Clifford Essex Paragon De Luxe, on which he played the original "James Bond Theme", was displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Flick appeared on a 2013 episode of the History Channel show, Pawn Stars, titled "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service". He brought in his 1961 Fender Stratocaster guitar to shop owner Rick Harrison, who, after consulting Jesse Amoroso, settled on a price of $55,000 for the guitar.

He played his Vox 12-string guitar on Peter and Gordon's 1964 #1 hit record "A World Without Love" written by Paul McCartney.

On the Dr. No (1962) soundtrack, he was lead guitarist on the track "James Bond Theme". Flick continued to contribute to the James Bond soundtracks from the 1960s through the late 1980s.

Flick worked with many recording artists, including Dusty Springfield, Nancy Sinatra, Cliff Richard, Shirley Bassey, among countless others.

He is heard on all of Tom Jones' early hits including "It's Not Unusual" (1965) and "What's New Pussycat?" (1965), and is the guitarist for the number 1 song "Downtown" (1964) by Petula Clark.

In 2013 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by The National Guitar Museum.

Flick also collaborated with Merchant Ivory Productions as composer/music arranger for Autobiography of a Princess (1975), The Europeans (1979), Quartet (1981), and Heat and Dust (1983).

Both of his parents were involved with music - his father taught piano and his mother sang.

In 2005, he played on the soundtrack of the From Russia With Love video game by Electronic Arts.

He was also the guitarist for Paul McCartney's 1977 "Thrillington" album.

In a 2021 interview for Guitar Player magazine, Flick credited the sound of his guitar on the Bond theme to the "plectrum I used and the guitar's strings. I placed the DeArmond pickup near the bridge. I put a crushed cigarette packet underneath it to get it nearer the strings. That helped to get that round sound".

Vic Flick began playing guitar when he was fourteen.

In 1999, Flick worked with composer Nic Raine, backed by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, on the James Bond tribute album titled "Bond Back in Action".

Flick's most identifiable guitar chord - the Em(maj9) - created for the James Bond series of films, consists of 0-10-9-8-7-X in tablature format.