Over the summer the Beatles announced the release of an expanded Special Edition of the band’s landmark 1965 album Rubber Soul.
“Newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, the collection presents the album in stunning new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes, alongside the original mono mix, the original Capitol US Album version, and expanded with previously unreleased session recordings and home demos, and the contemporary double A-side single, Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out,” the band said in a statement at the time.
The re-release comes 61 years after the album’s release and 60 years since it topped the charts, giving fans a chance to listen to 14 new stereo mixes for the first time.
The “super deluxe” collection, released on Oct. 2, gave fans a new look at 24 early session recordings, including 20 previously unreleased takes and three previously unreleased home demos that feature early recordings of Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, plus Little Girl, a previously unheard John Lennon song.
‘Rubber Soul’ Back in Billboard Charts
Just two weeks after its re-release, Rubber Soul is back on the Billboard charts – and not just inside the top 200 albums. No, the Beatles are back inside the top five, taking the No. 4 spot in the latest charting update from Billboard.
The album was previously named as one of the greatest of all time when Rolling Stone put Rubber Soul at No. 35 on its list of the greatest albums of all time.
“Producer George Martin described Rubber Soul as ‘the first album to present a new, growing Beatles to the world,’ and so it was,” Rolling Stone wrote.
“The first of what was to be a series of huge leaps forward with each new album, Rubber Soul opens with the comic character study Drive My Car and is suffused with Bob Dylan’s influence on I’m Looking Through You, You Won’t See Me, and Norwegian Wood, in which John Lennon sings about sex with a humor and candor unlike any rock & roller before and George Harrison lays down rock’s first sitar solo.”
The re-emergence of Rubber Soul highlights the greatness of the Beatles and their timeless music that has lived on for more than 60 years.
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