In his article on Morrison in the 1976 edition of the "Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll", critic Greil Marcus wrote, "Across 11 minutes, he sings, chants, moans, cries, pleads, shouts, hollers, whispers, until finally he breaks away from language and speaks in Irish tongues, breaking away from ordinary meaning until he has loosed the lion inside himself. He begins to roar: he has that sound, that yarrrrragh, as he has never had it before. He is not singing it, it is singing him."