Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 'The Quiet One' is a song by The Who, written by The Who's Bassist John Entwistle this is one of two songs written by John Entwistle for the Face Dances album (The Who's first album without Keith Moon, Kenney Jones of The Small Faces and The Faces is on drums instead) the other is You which had Roger Daltrey on Vocals.The Quiet One is also a B Side/Flip Side for the first single from Face Dances, You Better You Bet.You Better You Bet reached #18 in the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks, And #9 in the UK.The song had been written by John Entwistle to replace his song "My Wife" (From Who's Next) on stage, and it did so for the years of 1981 and The Who's Tour of 1982.However, in the proceeding tours, this song was never played again and "My Wife" was brought back.John Entwistle said about the Song"It's me trying to explain that I'm not really quiet. I started off being quiet and that's the pigeon hole I've been stuck in all these years. It started when I heard Kenney playing a drum riff and I thought 'that would be really great for a song and give Kenney a chance to play that on stage.' So I got Kenney to put down about three minutes of that and I worked along with it and came up with the chorus of 'A Quiet One.' I wrote 'Quiet One' especially to replace 'My Wife' onstage. I had gotten tired of singing that and 'Boris The Spider.'". }
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- The_Quiet_One_(The_Who_song) abstract "'The Quiet One' is a song by The Who, written by The Who's Bassist John Entwistle this is one of two songs written by John Entwistle for the Face Dances album (The Who's first album without Keith Moon, Kenney Jones of The Small Faces and The Faces is on drums instead) the other is You which had Roger Daltrey on Vocals.The Quiet One is also a B Side/Flip Side for the first single from Face Dances, You Better You Bet.You Better You Bet reached #18 in the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks, And #9 in the UK.The song had been written by John Entwistle to replace his song "My Wife" (From Who's Next) on stage, and it did so for the years of 1981 and The Who's Tour of 1982.However, in the proceeding tours, this song was never played again and "My Wife" was brought back.John Entwistle said about the Song"It's me trying to explain that I'm not really quiet. I started off being quiet and that's the pigeon hole I've been stuck in all these years. It started when I heard Kenney playing a drum riff and I thought 'that would be really great for a song and give Kenney a chance to play that on stage.' So I got Kenney to put down about three minutes of that and I worked along with it and came up with the chorus of 'A Quiet One.' I wrote 'Quiet One' especially to replace 'My Wife' onstage. I had gotten tired of singing that and 'Boris The Spider.'"".