 Writing on the BBC's website in August 2016, Greg Kot identified the "More popular than Christ" controversy and the attention subsequently afforded the release of "Sgt.Pepper" in 1967 as the two factors that had contributed to "Revolver" being relatively overlooked.Kot concluded that the ensuing decades had seen this impression reversed, since "Revolver" "does everything Sgt Pepper did, except it did it first and often better.