How did critics eventually come to view Astral Weeks?

Lester Bangs called it ‘a mystical document’ and ‘a beacon, a light on the far shores of the murk.’ Bruce Springsteen said it gave him ‘a sense of the divine.’ Critic Greil Marcus compared it to Bob Beamon’s record-shattering long jump at the 1968 Olympics — a singular achievement that was ‘way outside of history.’

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