A Quick One, While He's Away

This article is about the Who song. For the BoJack Horseman episode, see A Quick One, While He's Away (BoJack Horseman).

"A Quick One, While He's Away"
Song by the Who
from the album A Quick One
Released9 December 1966
RecordedEarly November 1966
StudioIBC, Pye and Regent Sound (London)
Genre
Length
LabelReaction
SongwriterPete Townshend
ProducerKit Lambert

"A Quick One, While He's Away" is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded by the English rock band the Who for their second studio album A Quick One (1966). The song also appears on the album BBC Sessions. In the performance on their Live at Leeds album Townshend calls the nine-minute "epic" track a "mini-opera" and introduces it as "Tommy's parents".

The song tells the story of an unnamed girl whose lover has been gone "for nearly a year". Her friends inform her that they "have a remedy"; the remedy comes in the form of Ivor the Engine Driver. When the lover returns, the girl confesses her infidelity, and she is ultimately forgiven.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.