Vic Flick – who died on 14 November, aged 87 – was not a widely known name. Yet as one of the UK’s most prolific session men of the ’60s, and beyond, every single one of us will have heard his work.
From Dusty Springfield’s I Only Want To Be With You to Tom Jones’s It’s Not Unusual, via The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night film, Flick had a hand in many of the era’s stone-cold classics. And while he was reportedly only paid a £6 fee for his credit on Monty Norman’s James Bond Theme, he would dine out reputationally for the rest of his life on that suave guitar riff.
