The guitarist Vic Flick, who has died aged 87, enjoyed a 50-year career as a guitarist and composer. He worked with countless leading names from the pop industry, from Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Engelbert Humperdinck and Cliff Richard to Petula Clark, Burt Bacharach and Shirley Bassey, but above all will be remembered for being the guitarist who played the indestructible James Bond theme, with its trademark “dum di-di dum-dum” rhythm.
It was first used in Dr. No, in 1962, and in December that year it reached 13 on the UK chart. The theme featured in every subsequent Bond film, though with many versions besides Flick’s. “I’m proud of it,” said Flick, “and I’m proud to be associated with it and I’m proud of all the things that developed from it. But at the time I had no idea that it was going to be like that.”
