"Flick of the Finger" is the first song from British band Beady Eye's second album, BE, and the first song released from the album.

[1][2] The song features a guest appearance from Kayvan Novak who reads out a passage from Tariq Ali's 1987 book, "Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties" (in turn quoting a, likely fictional, Jean-Paul Marat monologue from act 1, scene 23 of Peter Weiss' 1963 play "Marat/Sade")[3] to close the track.

[4] The music video for the song was made available to watch on the band's official website along with stems files as MP3s during the internet promotion.

[5] The track debuted on Californian radio station KCRW on 4 April 2013.

[6] The official music video premiered on YouTube, on 11 April 2013.