Due to popular demand, EMI rush-released "Pet Sounds" on June 27. It peaked at number 2, and remained in the top-ten positions for six months. Taylor is widely recognized as having been instrumental in this success, due to his longstanding connections with the Beatles and other industry figures in the UK. The music press there carried advertisements saying that "Pet Sounds" was "The Most Progressive Pop Album Ever!" According to Wilson biographer Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham, who was also the Beach Boys' publisher in England, took out a full-page advertisement in "Melody Maker" in which he lauded "Pet Sounds" as "the greatest album ever made". On July 22, "God Only Knows" (B-side "Wouldn't It Be Nice") was released as the third UK single, peaking at number 2.