Vic Flick, the famed British session musician who picked out the famous jangly guitar motif on the James Bond theme song, has died aged 87. The musician’s son, Kevin Flick announced his father died on 14 November, after having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Surrey in 1937, Flick had previously performed with the composer John Barry in the John Barry Seven, when Barry was brought in to rearrange Monty Norman’s theme for Dr No,...

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...