A Quick One, While He's Away

"A Quick One, While He's Away" is a 1966 song in six movements written by Pete Townshend and recorded by the Who for their second album A Quick One. 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".

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
  • Rock
  • pop
  • proto-prog
  • power pop
  • music hall
Length9:10 (album version) 9:41 (Thirty Years of Maximum R&B version)
LabelReaction
Songwriter(s)Pete Townshend
Producer(s)Kit Lambert

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.

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