"Pet Sounds" was not nominated for the 1967 Grammy Awards. In his 1969 "Pop Chronicles" series, John Gilliland stated that the album was almost overshadowed by the Beatles' "Revolver", released August 1966, and that "a lot people failed to realize that Brian Wilson's production was as unique in its own way as the Beatles'". In his 1971 reappraisal of the Beach Boys for "Melody Maker", Richard Williams wrote that although "Pet Sounds" had "defied criticism" and "dwarfed all the rest of pop music put together", whatever continued recognition Wilson would have received was immediately diverted to the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", released 12 months after "Pet Sounds". Writing in "Jazz & Pop" magazine in 1968, Gene Sculatti recognized the album's debt to "Rubber Soul", saying that "Pet Sounds" was "revolutionary only within the confines of the Beach Boys' music", although later in the piece he commented: ""Pet Sounds" was a final statement of an era and a prophecy that sweeping changes lay ahead."