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A Quick One, While He's Away

single by The Who
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A Quick One, While He's Away

Summary

A Quick One, While He's Away is a song[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of song entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (363 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • A Quick One, While He's Away's instance of is recorded as song[3].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away's instance of is recorded as single[4].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away's genre is proto-prog[5].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away followed So Sad About Us[6].
  • Among the performers on A Quick One, While He's Away was The Who[7].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away's record label is recorded as Reaction[8].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away is part of A Quick One[9].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away was released on January 1, 1966[10].
  • A Quick One, While He's Away's lyricist is recorded as Pete Townshend[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8e32349d-e3c0-3ca3-b090-a24b3a3a30c1[13]

Why It Matters

A Quick One, While He's Away ranks in the top 9% of song entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (363 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

Related Entities

Pete Townshend The Who

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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