Rather than introducing Harrison's audience to his new, jazz-funk sound, "Dark Horse" was released two-thirds of the way through a tour that had alienated some of rock music's most influential critics, notably Ben Fong-Torres of "Rolling Stone" magazine. Fong-Torres' radio piece for the Rolling Stone News Service was broadcast across America early in the tour and cemented what has become the "given" view, according to Leng, that the Harrison–Shankar tour was a failure. The majority of critics – or those "without axes to grind", author Robert Rodriguez writes – reviewed the concerts favourably. Band members Scott, Keltner, Weeks, Horn, Newmark and Richards have each identified "the Dark Horse Tour" as a career highpoint, while some commentators note the groundbreaking nature of the music The negative press Harrison received stemmed from his decision to feature Indian music so heavily in the concert program, and the fact that he was forced to sing with a voice "reduced to a raspy croak", but most crucially, from his refusal to pander to the Beatles legacy. The 1960s classics "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something" and "In My Life" were all performed throughout the tour, but with lyrics altered to fit Harrison's personal spiritual transformation – or his failed marriage in the case of the guitarist's most famous Beatles-era tune, "Something".