A Collection of Beatles Oldies the Beatles' "Revolver" period. The image of the Beatles in the Tokyo hotel room served as inspiration for the photograph used on Oasis' debut album, "Definitely Maybe", taken by Michael Spencer Jones.<ref name="NME/Oasis"></ref> From "Revolver" onwards, the Beatles' more dedicated fans began analysing the band's song lyrics for hidden meaning, and, in the description of American academic Camille Paglia, their album covers were also "feverishly scrutinized for clues and coded messages". The cover of "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" was viewed as the first example of the Beatles leaving clues relating to the Paul is Dead theory. This theory, which
The Beatles (album) your view". He concludes: "None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow "The Beatles" creates its own style and sound through its mess." Among reviews of the 2009 remastered album, Neil McCormick of "The Daily Telegraph" found that even its worst songs work within the context of such an eclectic and unconventional collection, which he rated "one of the greatest albums ever made". Writing for "Paste", Mark Kemp said "The Beatles" had been wrongly described as "three solo works in one (plus a Ringo song)", saying it "benefits from each member's wildly different