The Big Breakfast known as 'The Cottage'. After renovation following a fire, it has also been used for a number of television shows. Mark Lamarr, Keith Chegwin, Paul Ross, Richard Orford, Richard Bacon and Mike McClean were "down your doorstep" outside broadcasters, often turning up live and unannounced at an unsuspecting viewer's house, while rooms within the Lock Keeper's Cottages featured the puppets Zig and Zag and video games guru Ben the Boffin. The show's style, with hand-held cameras moving around all of the set, meant that many of the crew members could be seen on screen. This led to them getting nicknames,
The Who onwards, and turned their attention towards albums more than singles. From the early 1970s, the band's sound included synthesizers, particularly on "Who's Next" and "Quadrophenia". Although groups had used synthesizers before, the Who were one of the first to integrate the sound into a basic rock structure. In "By Numbers" the group's style had scaled back to more standard rock, but synthesisers regained prominence on "Face Dances". Townshend and Entwistle were instrumental in making extreme volumes and distortion standard rock practices. The Who were early adopters of Marshall Amplification. Entwistle was the first member to get two 4×12 speaker cabinets,