The Beatles’ landmark 1965 album Rubber Soul is getting an expanded Special Edition, newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell. The new collection presents the album in stunning new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes, alongside the original mono mix, the original Capitol U.S. album version, and expanded with previously unreleased session recordings and home demos. They’re accompanied by the double A-side single, “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out.” The 2026 editions, led by 4-CD and 5-LP Super Deluxe versions, will be released on October 2 via Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe and are available to pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.

The sets’ July 29 announcement (following a brief teaser campaign on the band’s social media platforms): Originally released on Dec. 3, 1965, Rubber Soul marked a pivotal moment in The Beatles‘ evolution. 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 songwriting and recording. More than six decades after its original release, Rubber Soul remains a defining moment in The Beatles’ story as an album that bridged the craze of Beatlemania and the experimentation that would follow on Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and beyond.

Recorded over four weeks during October and November 1965, following the band’s record-breaking concert to more than 55,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, Rubber Soul captured The Beatles at a creative crossroads. Featuring classics including “Drive My Car,” “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” “Nowhere Man,” “Michelle,” and “In My Life,” the album saw the foursome experiment with new instruments, sounds and recording techniques, and is widely regarded as having pioneered the long-form pop album as an art form. “Michelle (Take 1)” was made available on the day the Special Edition was announced.

Rubber Soul is the first Beatles studio album to receive an expanded edition in four years. Those acclaimed box sets began with 50th anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), The Beatles (aka The White Album) (2018), and Abbey Road (2019). It continued with Let it Be (2021) and Revolver (2022). Since then, they have been celebrated with deluxe box sets of the 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono (2024) and an expanded edition of their Anthology Collection (2025).

All of the new Rubber Soul formats feature the album’s new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes. The audio is brought to the fore in stunning clarity with the help of cutting-edge de-mixing technology developed by the award-winning sound team led by Emile de la Rey at Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd., while remaining faithful to the spirit of the original recordings.

The forthcoming reissue brings together all 14 new stereo mixes for the first time, while the expanded editions open the studio doors on the making of Rubber Soul. Across the Super Deluxe collections, fans can explore 24 early session recordings, including 20 previously unreleased takes and three previously unreleased home demos – among them early versions of “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out,” plus “Little Girl,” a previously unheard Lennon song outline never before released or even rumored. 

The Super Deluxe editions are accompanied by an 88-page hardbound book featuring a brand-new introduction by McCartney, and a foreword compiled from Lennon’s own words, bringing together reflections on Rubber Soul from across his life, including the years following The Beatles’ break-up. The two pieces offer a unique perspective on the making and enduring impact of the album, alongside rare photographs, in-depth album background and track notes. (See the complete track listing for the vinyl SDE below.)

2-CD and 2-LP Special Editions feature a curated selection of session highlights, demos and more, as well as standard single CD and LP editions. The collection will also be available on Blu-ray, featuring the new Dolby Atmos mix, high-resolution stereo audio and promotional films for “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out.”

Rubber Soul – Special Edition Super Deluxe (68 tracks)

5-LP Box Set

Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with 7” single, 88-page hardbound book in a 12” x 12” slipcase”

• LP1: Rubber Soul (New stereo mix) half-speed mastered: 14 tracks

• LP2 & 3: Sessions and Demos (Stereo) half-speed mastered: 26 tracks

• LP4: Rubber Soul (Original mono master): 14 tracks

• LP5: Rubber Soul (Original Capitol US album): 12 tracks

• 7”: ‘Day Tripper’ & ‘We Can Work It Out’ (Stereo)

4-CD Box Set

With 88-page hardbound book in a 12” x 12” slipcase:

• DISC 1: Rubber Soul (New stereo mix): 14 tracks

• DISC 2: Sessions, Demos and the Single (Stereo): 28 tracks

• DISC 3: Rubber Soul (Original mono master): 14 tracks

• DISC 4: Rubber Soul (Original Capitol US album): 12 tracks

5-LP Super Deluxe Box Set Track Listing

1LP – New stereo mix

Side A

A1. Drive My Car           

A2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)    

A3. You Won’t See Me  

A4. Nowhere Man          

A5. Think For Yourself   

A6. The Word    

A7. Michelle       

Side B

B1. What Goes On        

B2. Girl   

B3. I’m Looking Through You    

B4. In My Life     

B5. Wait

B6. If I Needed Someone          

B7. Run For Your Life    

LP2 – Sessions, Demos and The Single (Disc 1)

Side A

A1. Wait (Take 3 – instrumental backing track)

A2. Run For Your Life (Takes 1-5 – instrumental backing track)

A3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (First version –Take 1)

A4. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Second version –Take 2)

A5. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Third version – Take 3)

A6. Drive My Car (Takes 1 and 2 – instrumental backing track)

A7. Day Tripper (Songwriting work tape)

Side B

B1. Day Tripper (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)

B2. Day Tripper (Takes 2 and 3 – instrumental backing track)

B3. If I Needed Someone (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)

B4. In My Life (Take 1)

B5. In My Life (Extract with unused organ solo)

B6. We Can Work It Out (Paul’s demo)

B7. We Can Work It Out (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)

LP3 – Sessions, Demos and The Single (Disc 2)

Side A

A1. Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2)

A2. Nowhere Man (Second version – Take 5 – instrumental backing track)

A3. I’m Looking Through You (First version – Take 1)

A4. I’m Looking Through You (Second version – Take 2)

A5. I’m Looking Through You (Second version – Take 3)

A6. Michelle (Guitar rehearsal)

A7. Michelle (Take 1)

Side B

B1. What Goes On (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)

B2. The Word (Takes 1 and 2 – instrumental backing track)

B3. Girl (Take 2 – instrumental backing track)

B4. Beatle Talk (Think For Yourself vocal overdubs)

B5. Little Girl (John’s demo)

LP4 – Mono

Side A

A1. Drive My Car           

A2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)    

A3. You Won’t See Me  

A4. Nowhere Man          

A5. Think For Yourself   

A6. The Word    

A7. Michelle       

Side B

B1. What Goes On        

B2. Girl   

B3. I’m Looking Through You    

B4. In My Life     

B5. Wait

B6. If I Needed Someone

B7. Run For Your Life    

LP5 – US Album

Side A

A1. I’ve Just Seen A Face

A2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

A3. You Won’t See Me           

A4. Think For Yourself

A5. The Word

A6. Michelle    

Side B

B1. It’s Only Love       

B2. Girl            

B3. I’m Looking Through You

B4. In My Life  

B5. Wait          

B6. Run For Your Life

7” Single

Side A: 

A1. Day Tripper

Side AA:

AA1. We Can Work It Out

Rubber Soul Special Edition Deluxe (30 tracks)

2-LPs

Half-speed mastered 180-gram vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with 4-page insert abridged from the Super Deluxe book:

• LP1: Rubber Soul (New stereo mix): 14 tracks

• LP2: The Single, Demos and Sessions Highlights (Stereo): 16 tracks

2-CDs

Digisleeve and slipcase, with a 40-page booklet abridged from the Super Deluxe book:

• DISC 1: Rubber Soul (New stereo mix): 14 tracks

• DISC 2: The Single, Demos and Sessions Highlights: 16 tracks

The Special Editions are available to pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.