When high expectations are not met, the tension and anxiety on the long drive home can be overwhelming.

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On the long drive home from the studio after recording his show, he would listen to demo tapes that unknown bands had sent him, throwing the ones he didn't like on the floor and the ones he did on the back seat.

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The next time you're on your journey home - be it from work or from holidays - and you're bemoaning the long motorway drive, just think how much worse it would be without the 50-year-old stretch of highway.

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