The name of "Ivor the Engine Driver" was influenced by the UK TV series Ivor the Engine.
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A short tease of the final section, "You Are Forgiven", was used to end a concert at the Wembley Arena on 16 November 2000.
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When the song was performed live, instead of "girl", Townshend and Daltrey would make a point to sing "Girl Guide".
On the Who's album, Live at Leeds, Keith Moon refers to Chipping Ongar in a bit of stage banter as part of the introduction to their so-called "mini-opera," A Quick One, While He's Away.
In his early youth he brought some LP compilations of Opatija festivals and played them while using a wooden cigarette box as a drum and after hearing The Who's album A Quick One, he decided to become a drummer.
The credit was corrected in the liner notes to the 1995 CD release of A Quick One.
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All of the songs are available as bonus tracks on the 1995 reissue CD of A Quick One, except for "Circles", which differs from the version on the 2002 de luxe version of the My Generation LP, and can be found on Two's Missing.
Dan Beachy-Quick | A Quick One | Quick Draw McGraw | Quick | Live at the Quick | William Thomas Quick | Matthew Quick | James "Quick" Tillis | Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford | A Quick One, While He's Away | William F. Quick | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | Richard Quick | Quick 1888 | Omega Pharma-Quick Step | Mike Quick | Jonathan Quick | Johnny Quick | John H. Quick | Jim Quick | Jaune Quick-To-See Smith | James "Quick" Parker | Intel Quick Sync Video | Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing | Be Quick 1887 |
Subsequent to A Quick One, the central riff appears again as an encore to The Who's rendition of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King recorded during the sessions for The Who Sell Out, but Entwistle sings "Radio London" instead.