Beat Girl/The Off Beat/I Did What You Told Me/Lindon Home Rock/Time Out/The Shark/The Beat Girl Song/The City 2000 AD/The Stripper/The Cave-Beat Girls Kid Stuff/Made You/Car Chase-Night Chase/Chicken/Blues For Beatniks/Its Legal/The Immediate Pleasure/Blondie’s Strip/End Shot/Slaughter In Soho The rebellious teen film Beat Girl starred Adam Faith with the score composed by John Barry. It features the guitar of Vic Flick, presaging the James Bond theme. (UK:11)
“Beat Girl was Adam Faith's film debut, with Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed and Gillian Hills among the other stalwart names appearing. The music was written and performed by John Barry, with Adam leading on three tracks. The film was also unique as it was the first British soundtrack to be released on LP."
“A chance to hear the combination of Vic Flick and John Barry, most famously heard in the guitar playing in the James Bond theme, it is no wonder they wanted to parade him as Britain's answer to Duane Eddy. You can almost imagine yourself in a 60s cafe with the jukebox blaring in the background. This is definitely an album for nostalgia fans.”
“The film owes much of its effectiveness to John Barry's impressive first film with Vic Flick's savage twangy guitar presaging the Bond theme that was less than two years away.”
“John Barry’s instrumental score is bristling with panache. Influenced by both rock 'n' roll and the style of jazz that Elmer Bernstein had employed, Beat Girl is loud, brash and staggeringly cool. The guitar of Vic Flick is set to permanent riff and the brass section blows up a storm.”
“The music shows just how good John Barry really was, even at such an early stage in his composing career. I was perhaps more keen on the Adam Faith bits than the orchestral arrangements."
“Listening to the album today, I particularly enjoyed Vic Flick and his style of guitar playing which became a hallmark of the early 60s." “It's nostalgia trip music. The staccato brass, pizzicato strings, Vick Flick's twangy Strat are all in there, outlining the shape of things to come.”
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