The Beatles - Rubber Soul (Special Edition)

The Beatles — Rubber Soul (Special Edition) 

Remixed by Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in Dolby Atmos and high-res stereo

Blu-ray disc features the high-resolution stereo audio, plus the music videos for “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out”

Housed in digisleeve packaging and accompanied by a 20-page booklet

The album that changed everything — reimagined!

In the fall of 1965, The Beatles went into the studio as the world's favorite moptops — but they emerged as bold, uninhibited artists ready to reshape culture itself. Now, the Special Edition of the classic album Rubber Soul, remixed and expanded, brings unprecedented clarity to the album that revolutionized modern music. 

Rubber Soul shocked the world as soon as it arrived in December 1965. But it's never sounded better than it does now, on the long-awaited Special Edition. Newly mixed in Dolby Atmos and high-res stereo by producer Giles Martin and Sam Okell, the Blu-ray disc features the high-resolution stereo audio, plus the music videos for “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out.” All housed in a digisleeve and accompanied by a 20-page booklet.

Martin, son of the band's visionary producer George Martin, gives Rolling Stone an exclusive preview of the secrets of the new edition. "It's an album born out of frustration of not wanting to be little boys anymore," he says. "It has so much depth to it. This is the first album where they weren't trying to write a bunch of singles and deciding what should be the single."

You can hear the Beatles at their most playful and inventive, trying out their wildest whims. They explore fresh sounds like the sitar on "Norwegian Wood," or the harmonium on "The Word." "It was a license to experiment," Giles Martin says. "I remember asking my dad on his deathbed, did he ever think he was bad at music? And he said, ‘Well, I always thought I was brilliant.' And that's the thing about the Beatles. No matter what anyone says about them, my dad said, ‘They didn't change a bit.'"

Martin and engineer Sam Okell used the "de-mixing" audio technology for this Special Edition developed for Peter Jackson's historic documentary Get Back, by the team led by Emile de la Rey at Jackson's WingNut Films. It follows the previous Special Editions that have redefined the Beatles' legacy over the past decade — Sgt. Pepper in 2017, followed by the White Album in 2018, Abbey Road in 2019, Let It Be in 2021, Revolver in 2022, and Anthology in 2025. 

1. Drive My Car

2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

3. You Won't See Me

4. Nowhere Man

5. Think For Yourself

6. The Word

7. Michelle

8. What Goes On

9. Girl

10. I'm Looking Through You

11. In My Life

12. Wait

13. If I Needed Someone

14. Run For Your Life

15. Day Tripper

16. We Can Work It Out

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