Guitarist, Composer, Conductor, Film Score Composer
Nationality
England
Spouse
Judith Mary (m. 1960)
Siblings
Alan Flick
Nicknames
Victor Harold Flick
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Quote
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(About The James Bond Theme) Monty Norman made hundreds of thousands of pounds, John Barry made millions from the spin-off, I got seven pounds ten shillings for playing on it!
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Fact
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Las Vegas, Nevada - publicizing his auto-biography: Vic Flick Guitarman. [August 2008]
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He plays solo guitar on 'This Boy' (Ringo's Theme'), heard in the film, A Hard Day's Night (1964).
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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.
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His biography, Vic Flick, Guitarman, was published in August 2008.
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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.
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Composer, guitarist and arranger of pop songs for leading vocalists.
$500 Thousand
