(SOUNDBITE OF JAMES BOND THEME MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.My father taught music. MONTAGNE: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Are you - is this a - you're talking science here but you're making it sound like we might be close to having an invisible car. INSKEEP: Tomorrow, Bond Week continues as our own David Greene asks astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about 007's hi-tech gadgets.īut wait.
MONTAGNE: You can hear Vic Flick's theme, and sing along while playing air guitar, at. And on Friday, he will perform his famous guitar riff in Los Angeles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 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. INSKEEP: To get just the right sound 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: But to give it some urgency and dynamicism(ph) - or whatever the word is - you know, I just do. And it's followed me down for 50 years, so it couldn't have been too bad. So, you know, the combination of his writing for brass and my guitar playing, it kind of brought the thing to a conclusion and everybody seemed to be quite happy.
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. MONTAGNE: Sound familiar? This theme was written by composer John Barry.
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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. So we - and, as you know the Bond theme, but nothing sort of dynamic. VIC FLICK: What Monty had written was like duh, duh, duh, dee, dah, dee dee. 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. That guitar riff was performed by Vic Flick. And here's the part that gives it that secret agent feel. This is one of the most famous themes in movie history. All week long we've been looking at what makes Bond so Bond. He did start getting some royalty checks in the mid-1990s, and Friday, he'll perform his famous guitar riff in Los Angeles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Īnd we're marking the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film. As for him - "I got $15 for recording it," he says with a laugh.įlick is not bitter. "To give it some urgency and dynamicism or whatever the word is," Flick says. To get just the right sound, Flick says, he had to really "dig in" to his guitar. It's followed me now for 50 years, so it couldn't have been too bad." "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. "When we got it, we looked at it and added to it, changed it," Flick says. The Bond producers hired Barry to arrange 007's theme, and he asked Flick to help. The Beat Girl theme was written by composer John Barry and features Flick on guitar. Then the Bond producers heard the soundtrack to the 1960 teenage "angst" movie Beat Girl, and it was just sound they were looking for. He'd scratched out a rough draft of the theme, but Flick says it fell a little flat. Composer Monty Norman, who wrote the theme, was scrambling to complete the score for the first Bond movie, Dr. In 1962, Flick was a 25-year-old studio guitarist who was asked to help give the James Bond theme more of a punch. The infamous guitar riff that gives the theme its secret agent feel was performed by Vic Flick, who spoke to Morning Edition about the day he played it, 50 years ago. The 007 theme is one of the most famous themes in movie history.
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