The Beatles announce release of Rubber Soul Special Edition

The Beatles have announced the release of a special edition of Rubber Soul, out October 2.

The 1965 album, newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, presents the original songs alongside previously unreleased session recordings and home demos. It also includes the double A-side single, ‘Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out. Michelle (Take 1).’

The album was recorded over four weeks during October and November of 1965 after the band’s concert to more than 55,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, breaking stadium attendance records.

Featuring classics like ‘Drive My Car,’ ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),’ ‘Nowhere Man,’ ‘Michelle,’ ‘Girl' and 'In My Life,’ Rubber Soul sees The Beatles experiment with new instruments, sounds and recording techniques.

The reissue brings together all 14 new stereo mixes. Across the Super Deluxe collections, there are  24 early session recordings, 20 previously unreleased takes and three previously unreleased home demos, including ‘Little Girl’ – a John Lennon song outline never before released.

“Arriving at the end of a remarkable year that saw John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reach artistic and commercial heights, the album revealed a band pushing beyond the conventions of pop music and embracing a more adventurous approach to song writing and recording,” said the band’s media agency.

Rubber Soul will be available in standard 1CD and 1LP editions, 2CD and 2LP Deluxe and 4CD and 5LP Super Deluxe editions. The Super Deluxe editions are accompanied by an 88-page book featuring an introduction from McCartney and a foreword from Lennon.

The new release of Rubber Soul is available to pre-order here.

Listen to 'Michelle (Take 1)' below.