The Beatles will release a Super Deluxe edition of their 1965 album Rubber Soul on 2 October via Apple Corps, with previously unreleased session recordings, home demos, and a John Lennon song outline that has never been heard.

The set is produced by Giles Martin — son of the band's longtime producer George Martin — and engineer Sam Okell, who have overseen the Beatles' reissue programme since the 2010s. A fresh stereo mix sits alongside the original mono mix, and both were created using technology developed at Peter Jackson's WingNut Films Productions Ltd, the same demixing tools used on recent Beatles reissues to separate instruments from original recordings that were never tracked to individual channels (Pitchfork).

The Super Deluxe box set carries 24 early session recordings, 20 of which are previously unreleased takes, according to SuperDeluxeEdition.com. The package also includes the Capitol US album version — the tracklisting American listeners received in 1965, which differed from the UK release — the contemporary singles 'Day Tripper' and 'We Can Work It Out', Dolby Atmos mixes, a Blu-ray disc, and an 88-page book with an introduction by Paul McCartney (thebeatles.com).

A preview track, 'Michelle (Take 1)', is already available, the band confirmed on thebeatles.com.

For buyers who don't want the full box, the reissue scales across several tiers: standard 1CD and 1LP editions, 2CD and 2LP Special Editions, and the 4CD and 5LP Super Deluxe editions. Pre-orders are open now.

Rubber Soul arrived in December 1965 as the Beatles' sixth UK studio album, a fourteen-track record that shifted the group's writing toward folk-rock textures and studio experimentation. It has been certified 6× Platinum by the RIAA, the body that measures US recorded-music sales. This reissue follows the same Super Deluxe template applied to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be in recent years — a programme that pairs new mixes with deep-archive session material from the Beatles' vaults.

For fans, the draw is the unreleased material. Twenty session takes that have sat in the archive for over six decades will be commercially available for the first time, alongside the Lennon song outline — a working sketch rather than a finished recording, but a document of a writing process that has rarely surfaced in official releases.