![]() This item was featured on the History Channel series "Pawn Stars". Accompanied by additional parts, a document listing the numerous songs it was played on, and a hardshell case. The original switch has been changed to a 5-way switch. The neck dates are 10/61, indicating October of 1961, and the potentiometer codes are 3046134, indicating the 34th week of 1961. It has been refretted, and a new nut has been installed. This guitar was played by Flick on numerous popular recordings, including “Ringo’s Theme (This Boy)” from the classic Beatles film "A Hard Day’s Night" (Proscenium Films, 1964) both the score and the Shirley Bassey theme song for the hit James Bond thriller "Goldfinger" (Eon Productions, 1964) “Downtown” by Petula Clark “Shout” by Lulu “It’s Not Unusual” by Tom Jones and was even sampled in FatBoy Slim’s 1998 hit “Rockafeller Skank.” This guitar was originally factory Olympic White, but was later repainted non-factory white. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.TER A 1961 Fender Stratocaster, Olympic White, owned and played by guitarist Vic Flick. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. ![]() ![]() Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. And last fall, he helped mark the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film by performing his famous guitar riff at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Ĭopyright © 2012 NPR. He did start getting some royalty checks in the mid-1990s. INSKEEP: But Flick's says he's not bitter. He says he reckons John Barry and composer Monty Norman made a fortune off the Bond theme. TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content. but to give it some urgency and dynamicism(ph), or whatever the word is, you know, you just. INSKEEP: To get just the right sound, Vic Flick says he had to really dig in to his guitar.įLICK: To play it normally, suppose it was just a tune, you go.įLICK. The Bond producers hired Barry to arrange 007's theme and he in turn asked Flick to help.įLICK: When we got it, we looked at it and added to it and changed it, so, you know, the combination of his writing for brass and my guitar playing kind of brought the thing to a conclusion and everybody seemed to be quite happy and it's followed me down for fifty years, so it couldn't have been too bad. In the case of the Bond themes, some, like Goldfinger & The James Bond Theme have received sparkling makeovers. MONTAGNE: This theme was written by composer John Barry. Product Description James Bond Now by Vic Flick Review For 'James Bond Now', Flick has taken seven of his own favourite Bond themes, given them his own highly original treatment, and added three of his own compositions as a bonus. MONTAGNE: Then the Bond producers heard the soundtrack to the 1960 teenage angst movie "Beat Girl" and it was just the sound they were looking for. VIC FLICK: What Monty had written was like duh, duh, duh, dee, dah, dee dee so we - and as you know the Bond theme but nothing sort of dynamic. No." He'd scratched out a rough draft, but Flick says it felt a little flat. The composer, Monty Norman, was scrambling to complete the score for the first Bond movie, "Dr. Flick was a 25-year-old studio guitarist who was asked to help give the Bond theme more punch. His interest in music started in his early teens, when he joined a band led by his piano-playing father a band that also included his brother on saxophone and a neighbour on violin. That guitar riff was performed by Vic Flick. Vic Flick was born in Worcester Park, Surrey in 1937. This is one of the most famous themes in movie history, and here's the part that gives it that secret agent feel. No." and to help 007 celebrate, we investigated one of the ingredients that helps make Bond films so Bond. 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the first Bond film, "Dr. We've been looking back at some of the stories we heard on MORNING EDITION in the past year and bringing you encore performances of our favorites. ![]()
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