Queen live in Budapest '86 headed to IMAX and multiple audiovisual formats this October

Sony Music Vision announced that QUEEN BUDAPEST, the final filmed Queen live performance with Freddie Mercury, will be presented in cinemas and IMAX worldwide beginning October 7 through Trafalgar Releasing.

Filmed on July 27, 1986, at Budapest’s Népstadion, during the band’s ‘The Magic Tour,’ the concert has been restored in 4K from the original filmed 35mm footage by Sir Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post Production facility in New Zealand, with newly remixed audio from the original multitrack recordings. 

The show was professionally filmed on 35mm movie film by 17 cameras. The Hungarian government approved the entire operation, which was a first for a Communist State. An edited version of the show was broadcast in December 1986 throughout the Communist Bloc, including China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Yugoslavia and Mongolia, as well as to 59 Hungarian cinemas on New Year’s Day 1987, a first for a Western rock act.

For Queen’s Brian May & Roger Taylor, the show in Budapest wasn’t just another date on what was a huge tour for the band, it held much deeper meaning.

Brian May: “For years, fans behind the Iron Curtain had been able to listen to Queen music only on illegal cassettes. It was a forbidden thing to listen to rock bands like us, so to see them play in a live show would have been unthinkable. This concert, when they could finally come and see us live in person and interact with us, was a huge emotional moment for them and also for us. It felt like a very big deal – you could feel that incredible energy. There will never be an event quite like that again. Perhaps the most memorable highlight of all was performing that beautiful Hungarian folk song, which Freddie and I had learned for the occasion. Not a dry eye!”

Roger Taylor: “We did love to think that the music could transcend the politics, the political barriers, and that was sort of part of our ethos, to actually bring the audience into the show and make them feel part of the show. I know Freddie tried to learn this folk song, but he had the words written phonetically on the back of his hand. When the audience just started singing, we realized, wow, music really can be a great cause.”

Brian May, “Peter Jackson’s team have done a magnificent job of restoring the original film footage, at the highest resolution ever; it's pristine and the quality is breathtaking. I think you’re going to love it. For the sound, we’ve been able to do some top-quality restoration work as well. Now, in IMAX and movie theatres, it’s going to be definitively the most real experience ever of us, Queen, in our glory days. I think people will get lost in it and even forget they're watching a film.”

The 4K restoration of QUEEN BUDAPEST will have its world premiere at the Budapest Classics Film Marathon on September 15, hosted by the National Film Institute of Hungary, as part of the festival’s program celebrating restored and rediscovered cinema. A UK premiere will take place in London on September 30, with further details to follow. The 4K digitization of the original negatives was carried out by the National Film Institute (NFI), Hungary's FilmLab in Budapest. The original elements of the film were preserved by NFI Film Archive in Budapest since 1986.

QUEEN BUDAPEST will be released globally in cinemas and IMAX from October 7 for a limited time only, in partnership with Trafalgar Releasing. Tickets will be on sale later this summer. Fans are encouraged to sign up at the official website at QueenBudapest.com for further information and to be alerted when pre-sale tickets are available. 

QUEEN BUDAPEST will be accompanied by a multi-format package via Hollywood Records in North America and Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music, internationally on October 30. The soundtrack, newly remixed from the original multitrack by Queen’s studio team, will be released alongside the Blu-Ray, DVD, CD & Digital editions as a 3LP vinyl set for the very first time.

QUEEN BUDAPEST is directed by János Zsombolyai.

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Out now: The Waterboys’ Atlantic Rain - The Lost ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ Recordings

Back in the mid-Eighties, The Waterboys were familiar to college and alternative radio listeners, thanks to minor hit “A Girl Called Johnny” and especially, “The Whole of the Moon” (a top 30 single in several countries).

When the time came to make what would become the band’s fourth and most successful studio album Fisherman’s Blues, singer/guitarist/leader Mike Scott had moved to the Emerald Isle and gravitated toward that country's traditional sonic influences as well as that of his native Scotland.  

Recording sessions took place at various points during 1986-88, resulting in nearly 400 multi-track music reels. Some ran at half-speed in order to pack more music onto the tapes without having to change them. A good percentage of those reels had no song titles on them, only vague descriptions.

Scott pored through the mysterious tapes in 2024-25 and discovered many release worthy, forgotten performances, including never before heard songs like “Endless Store,” “Light Shine on Me,” “Come Back to Galway,” “Man with the Wind at His Heels,” and covers by Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Willie Nelson and others (Side note: astute Waterboys followers will recall there was a six-disc Fisherman’s Box, released in 2013).  

Atlantic Rain - The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings is a frequently rousing 25-track collection that will prove eye-opening for longtime fans. The unreleased studio takes, soundchecks, jam sessions and more are available in 3CD, 3LP and digital formats. The package includes a 54-page deluxe book with notes and track by track by Mike Scott. 

Especially noteworthy is a new remix and lyric video for “We Will Not Be Lovers” (part of the actual Fisherman’s Blues release) – heard in the 2026 Netflix horror series, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. A companion lyric video was released: watch HERE. 

Among the standouts: the upbeat stomper “Too Close To Heaven,” with Anthony Thistlethwaite’s jaunty sax work and some falsetto vocal bits from Scott; a loping, nearly nine-minute-long “Come Back To Galway”; Steve Wickham’s dramatic violins on the uplifting “The Man with the Wind at His Heels”; a poppier “Light Shine On Me”; the feisty take on Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonkin’” and piano ballad cover of The Rolling Stones’ “No Expectations.”

The band also does its versions of Prince’s “When Doves Cry” (containing reverb-laden vocals, electric piano and an intense violin solo) and a nearly unrecognizable run-through of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.” 

Impressively, Jay Dee Daugherty (Patti Smith) and the legendary Jim Keltner provide drums here and there, while a pre-fame Liam O’Maonlai of Hothouse Flowers also adds rollicking piano to the Williams’ popularized “Lost Highway.”

If you want to read about The Waterboys’ most recent studio album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, go to newwavegeo.blogspot.com.

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Graham Coxon of Blur continues solo catalog reissues

Following his previously unreleased solo album Castle Park, Trangressive Records announced the second drop in a comprehensive reissue of Graham Coxon’s complete solo catalogue, spanning 9 studio albums and 3 original soundtracks.

The three albums will be available on CD, black vinyl and limited edition coloured vinyl, exclusive to independent record shops and Graham’s store: Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001) on blood red and black splatter double LP; The Kiss of Morning (2002) on turquoise double LP; and Happiness In Magazines (2004) on deep blue vinyl. Listen and pre-order HERE.

September 11 will see the digital release of 14-track live album Live At The Zodiac, available in its entirety for the first time on DSPs, along with a full performance video for each track, taken from the original concert DVD. Live At The Zodiac captures Coxon’s solo show at the iconic Oxford venue (now the O2 Academy), recorded on 3rd June, 2004, with the concert DVD released in March 2005. Watch the video for the track ‘Bittersweet Bundle of Misery’ HERE.

Originally released in 2001, Crow Sit On Blood Tree is Graham’s third solo album. “There’s absolute mayhem on that at times, but there’s quiet songs, too,” Graham says of Crow Sit On Blood Tree, which was recorded, mixed and mastered in just two weeks. “I was still exploring different music and what I could do. I’ll turn my hand to so many different types of music if it feels natural.”

Arriving in October 2002, The Kiss Of The Morning is less of a DIY affair than its predecessors; pedal steel player B.J. Cole and Louis Vause on keyboards helped to fully flesh it out. 

Speaking about The Kiss Of Morning, Graham said - “I felt free to do whatever I wanted to do. I was expanding my sound and also finding a bit more calm in my songs.”

Happiness In Magazines is Coxon’s fifth solo studio album. Recorded with producer Stephen Street, it was his most successful solo record up to that point, going top 20 in the UK and earning him the Best Solo Artist prize at the 2005 NME Awards. 

“Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery’ and ‘Freakin’ Out’ were two of the first things I wrote,” recalls Graham. “I remember thinking, Oh, actually, maybe my songwriting is getting a bit better? Maybe I should take this seriously and not be such a control freak? Stephen just got it. He loved what I was getting at, the sound of it and the era it was influenced by – things like The Cars and The Jam.”

With his back catalogue long sold out and in high demand on physical formats, the release of Castle Park in June kicked off the comprehensive reissue of Coxon’s expansive solo catalogue and comes alongside the re-release of The Sky is Too High and The Golden D, available now.

Further drops to come include the studio albums Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006), The Spinning Top (2009), A+E (2012); as well as the two Original Songs and Score album soundtracks for The End of The F***ing World 1 (2018) and The End of The F***ing World 2 (2019); plus Superstate (2021), the original soundtrack released to accompany the graphic novel of the same name.

FORMATS:

Crow Sit On Blood Tree (2001): Available from 11th September on CD, LP double black vinyl; and LP double blood red & black splatter vinyl, exclusive to independent record stores and the Graham Coxon store. 

The Kiss Of Morning (2002): Available from 11th September on CD; LP double black vinyl; and LP double turquoise vinyl, exclusive to independent record stores and the Graham Coxon store. 

Happiness In Magazines (2004): Available from 11th September on CD; LP black vinyl; and limited edition LP deep blue vinyl, exclusive to independent record stores and the Graham Coxon store, from 11th September. 

Live At The Zodiac (2004): Available from 11th September on DSPs for the first time as a full album. Plus a full video album, a live performance of each track, mirroring the original DVD concert film release. Pre-save HERE.

TRACK LISTINGS:

Crow Sit On Blood Tree

1. Empty Word
2. I'm Going Away
3. All Has Gone
4. Burn It Down
5. Too Uptight
6. Big Bird
7. Tired
8. Hurt Prone
9. Bonfires
10. Thank God for the Rain
11. You Never Will Be
12. A Place for Grief

The Kiss Of Morning

1. Bitter Tears
2. Escape Song
3. Locked Doors
4. Baby, You're out of My Mind
5. It Ain't No Lie
6. Live Line
7. Just Be Mine
8. Do What You're Told To
9. Mountain of Regret
10. Latte
11. Walking Down the Highway
12. Song for the Sick

Happiness In Magazines

1. Spectacular
2. No Good Time
3. Girl Done Gone
4. Bittersweet Bundle of Misery
5. All over Me
6. Freakin' Out
7. People of the Earth
8. Hopeless Friend
9. Are You Ready?
10. Bottom Bunk
11. Don't Be a Stranger
12. Ribbons and Leaves

Live At The Zodiac

1. Escape Song (Live At The Zodiac)
2. Spectacular (Live At The Zodiac)
3. No Good Time (Live At The Zodiac)
4. I Wish (Live At The Zodiac)
5. That’s All I Wanna Do (Live At The Zodiac)
6. Bottom Bunk (Live At The Zodiac)
7. Bittersweet Bundle of Misery (Live At The Zodiac)
8. Girl Done Gone (Live At The Zodiac)
9. All Over Me (Live At The Zodiac)
10. Bitter Tears (Live At The Zodiac)
11. People of The Earth (Live At The Zodiac)
12. All I Wanna Do Iz Listen To Yuz (Live At The Zodiac)
13. Freakin’ Out (Live At The Zodiac)
14. Who The Fuck? (Live At The Zodiac)

About Castle Park:

Produced by Ben Hillier (blur - Think Tank), Castle Park was recorded in 2011 as part of the A+E (2012) sessions. Originally intended as a follow up to A+E, the release was postponed due to blur activity in 2012, before Coxon moved on to other projects. Castle Park is a collection of 10 songs that lean into the artist’s classic mod sound, with lead single ‘Billy Says’ - a longtime feature of Coxon’s live set - already familiar to fans and now finally available for the first time. Listen to Castle Park HERE.

ABOUT GRAHAM COXON:

An English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, Graham Coxon is best known as being a founding member of blur. Coxon has also released eight solo albums and frequently composes for film and TV. 

Coxon’s work as a solo artist includes the studio albums The Sky Is Too High (1998), The Golden D (2000), Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001), The Kiss of Morning (2002), Happiness in Magazines (2004), Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006), The Spinning Top (2009) and A+E (2012). His work as a composer include the original songs and score for The End of the F***ing World (2018), The End of the F***ing World 2 (2019), I Am Not Okay with This (2020), and Superstate (2021) released in association with Z2 Comics.

He has collaborated with numerous other artists including Paul Weller on the single ‘This Old Town’ and Pete Doherty on his 2009 album Grace/Wastelands. In 2017 Coxon (along with Damon Albarn) appeared on Ratboy's debut album, Scum, and the same year he recorded the song ‘Falling’ which was released as a fundraiser for the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). The artist also contributed to several songs on Duran Duran's Future Past album. 

More recently, he recorded a new song titled ‘Parasite’ with English Teacher for the 2026 album HELP(2), in support of War Child, as well as providing guitar for Olivia Rodrigo’s take on The Magnetic Fields song ‘The Book of Love’ on the same album.

The eponymous debut album from The WAEVE - composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – was released in 2023. The band’s second studio album City Lights was released in 2024.

Richard Thompson sings about 'Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, Richard Thompson's 20th studio album, is due on October 16 via New West Records. 

As he finished recording, Thompson says about the songs and their desperate characters: “You look over the body of songs you’ve written and ask yourself, 'Which ones are kindred spirits?' You look for commonality among the songs, and it’s also a joy when you realize that certain songs seem to be brothers and sisters..”

The first single, “Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking,” is a tale of folks hustling in London—a “carousel queen” overwhelmed by the big city, a soldier quoting Shakespeare, “a Kings Road Hippie,” and a “Sauchiehill thug.” Hear it HERE.

Thompson wrote and demoed songs for his backing band, which includes Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Michael Jerome on drums, David Mansfield on guitar and fiddle, and his wife Zara Phillips on backing vocals. His home recordings were much more elaborate, much more specific for the new album. 

“It’s so much fun to mess around at home and disappear down in the basement for hours at a time. I even bought myself a drumkit. So I was able to present more complete demos to the band. You could say there’s much more of my identity being transferred to the final product.” 

As always, he left room for the band to add their own ideas, but admits Hippies, Thugs and Heroes is “less them and more me. But I’m never strict about what I want to hear on a record. I’m always interested to see what they come up with, and I always want to see where a song takes me.” 

Thompson and the band convened at Hobosound Studio in Weehawken, New Jersey, located a stone’s throw from his own home. “I think this is why this album came together so quickly. We could just steam through at high speed and not labor over everything.” The small crew recorded live with a minimum of takes—sometimes as few as two, but rarely more than four.” 

Hippies, Thugs and Heroes will be available across digital platforms, compact disc, and standard black vinyl. A limited clear with black splatter color vinyl edition with an autographed insert as well as a limited CD edition autographed by Richard Thompson will be available at Independent Retailers. A limited pink marbled color vinyl edition including a bonus flexi-disc featuring a demo recording of “Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking,” and an autographed insert will be available via Rough Trade. A limited yellow with black splatter color vinyl edition including an autographed insert as well as a limited & autographed compact disc edition is available for pre-order NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.

Track Listing:

1. Sorcerer’s Apprentice
2. Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking
3. Pauper’s Grave
4. Unsung Hero
5. Make Believe You Don’t Know Me
6. She Burns It All
7. Everybody’s Stealing
8. The Soul In Me
9. Pipe Dreams
10. The Big Smoke
11. Stringer
12. Siren

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Roger Joseph Manning Jr. returns with new album in September

Noted musician/sideman Roger Joseph Manning Jr. has announced his new album Hopium, due out September 18 on Omnivore Recordings.

Available on vinyl, CD and digital, the LP features five new songs and five live tracks. 

The new single “Modern Dance (The After School Specials),” is a recently completed song from the vault that’s been in the works for more than three decades.

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Roger on the new single: "I've been committed to finishing this song for upwards of 30 years. That's how much I believed in it. For example, the bulk of the music was written in 1995 during my Imperial Drag days. I finally completed an arrangement and the lyrics in 2015 while on a European summer tour with Beck. It would then be another 10 years of random recording sessions and a final mix being completed in 2025. There's no right way to get to the finish line. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out; I hope everybody enjoys it as much as me."

Half of Hopium features five new songs, some of which have been in the works for over 15 years. Across the ensuing years, Manning worked with musician friends Victor Indrizzo (drums), Steve Shane McDonald (bass), Jim Wilson (electric guitars), Ken Sluiter (mixing, mastering) and Jason Falkner (additional electric guitars) to craft the basis of the new album.

About the songs on Hopium, Roger says, “I remember writing the lyrics in a hotel room in Germany. Out on tour, especially in the middle of the night when you’re jetlagging, you have all this time to think about lyrics that take forever to take shape. It’s a huge sense of personal victory when you realize you’ve got something. This collection of songs is like that, ideas that developed over time that I believed in enough to take the time and resources to flesh out and record thinking, ‘Somebody’s got to hear this someday.’ So I just keep going and it’s a method that’s worked for me over the years because as a freelance musician, we’re all so busy trying to make ends meet, the songs that make it through have a special place in my heart.”

The second half of Hopium is drawn from Manning’s live appearance at the 2018 International Pop Overthrow Festival at Molly Malone’s in Los Angeles. Those five songs include a pair from his 2006 album The Land Of Pure Imagination, one from his previous Omnivore release, 2023’s Radio Daze & Glamping, and another pair from Jellyfish. The live band appearing alongside him for the IPO date includes Chris Price, Dan Rothchild, Ben Lecourt, Alex Jules, and Emeen Zarookian.

Music fans worldwide know Roger Joseph Manning Jr. as co-founder or member of the bands Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, The Moog Cookbook, TV Eyes and The Lickerish Quartet, in addition to being a member of Beck’s band and an in-demand session player. Over the years, he’s contributed to albums by Beck, Morrissey, Lana Del Rey, Blink-182, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick and Adele, among many others.

Track listing: 

1. Modern Dance (The After School Specials)

2. Just Lust

3. My Magic Bicycle
4. Wish Away
5. The Lords Of Altamont
6. That Is Why (Live at International Pop Overthrow 2018)
7. The Loser (Live at International Pop Overthrow 2018)
8. Pray For The Many (Live at International Pop Overthrow 2018)
9. Funhouse (Live at International Pop Overthrow 2018)
10. The King Is Half-Undressed (Live at International Pop Overthrow 2018)

The Beatles' Classic Album 'Rubber Soul' to Get Super Deluxe Box Set Treatment in October

photo: Apple Corps/Capitol/UME

On October 2, Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe will release an expanded Special Edition of The Beatles’ landmark 1965 album Rubber Soul. 

Newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, the collection presents the album in 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, and the contemporary double A-side single, “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out.”

“Michelle (Take 1)” is available to listen to here now. 

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 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.

The forthcoming reissue brings together all 14 new stereo mixes for the first time. 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 John Lennon song outline never before released or even rumored. The collections also include the original mono album, the original Capitol U.S. album version and the 1965 double A-side single, while the 2CD and 2LP Special Editions feature a curated selection of session highlights, demos and the single.

The 4CD and 5LP Super Deluxe editions are accompanied by an 88-page hardbound book featuring a brand new written introduction by Paul McCartney, and a foreword compiled from John 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, album background and track notes.

Rubber Soul will be available in standard 1CD and 1LP editions, 2CD and 2LP Special Editions, and 4CD and 5LP Super Deluxe 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,” alongside limited-edition orange vinyl and D2C exclusive Zoetrope vinyl editions.

Rubber Soul - Special Edition Super Deluxe (68 tracks)

5LP Box Set

5LP 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)

4CD Box Set

4CD 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

D2C-exclusive editions of the 5LP and 4CD Super Deluxe Box Sets, featuring an exclusive poster and set of art cards, are also available from the official Beatles Store, alongside a limited-edition Zoetrope picture disc.

Rubber Soul Special Edition Deluxe (30 tracks)

2LP

2LP on 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

2CD

2CD in 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

Rubber Soul Special Edition Standard (14 tracks)

1LP (New stereo mix) on half-speed mastered 180-gram vinyl

1LP (New stereo mix) on half-speed mastered 180-gram orange colour vinyl
1CD in digisleeve + 20-page booklet (New stereo mix)

Rubber Soul Blu-ray Edition: 16 tracks + 4 videos

1 Blu-ray disc
New stereo mix in hi-res 96kHz/24-bit audio, new Dolby Atmos mix, and four videos

Selected Track Listings: 

Rubber Soul - Special Edition Super Deluxe: 4CD Box Set

DISC 1: New Stereo Mix (14 tracks)
DISC 2: Sessions, Demos and the Single (28 tracks)

1. Wait (Take 3 – instrumental backing track)
2. Run For Your Life (Takes 1-5 – instrumental backing track)
3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (First version – Take 1)
4. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Second version – Take 2)
5. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Third version – Take 3)
6. Drive My Car (Takes 1 and 2 – instrumental backing track)
7. Day Tripper (Songwriting work tape)
8. Day Tripper (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)
9. Day Tripper (Takes 2 and 3 – instrumental backing track)
10. If I Needed Someone (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)
11. In My Life (Take 1)
12. In My Life (Extract with unused organ solo)
13. We Can Work It Out (Paul’s demo)
14. We Can Work It Out (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)
15. Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2)
16. Nowhere Man (Second version – Take 5 – instrumental backing track)
17. I’m Looking Through You (First version – Take 1)
18. I’m Looking Through You (Second version – Take 2)
19. I’m Looking Through You (Second version – Take 3)
20. Michelle (Guitar rehearsal)
21. Michelle (Take 1)
22. What Goes On (Take 1 – instrumental backing track)
23. The Word (Takes 1 and 2 – instrumental backing track)
24. Girl (Take 2 – instrumental backing track)
25. Beatle Talk (Think For Yourself vocal overdubs)
26. Little Girl (John’s demo)
27. Day Tripper (2023 mix)
28. We Can Work It Out (2023 mix)

DISC 3: Original Mono Master (14 tracks - identical sequence to LP4)

DISC 4: Original Capitol US Album (12 tracks - identical sequence to LP5)

Rubber Soul - Blu-ray Edition

2026 Atmos Mix

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

2023 Atmos Mix

15. Day Tripper
16. We Can Work It Out

Videos:

1. Day Tripper (2023 Mix)
2. Day Tripper (Alternate Version)
3. We Can Work It Out (2023 Mix)
4. We Can Work It Out (Alternate Version)

For complete track listings of all formats, go to thebeatles.com

Out now: 'The Confuser' and 'Stranded in the Future,' the new album and book by Robyn Hitchcock

Veteran British alternative rock singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has unveiled his new album, The Confuser, available everywhere now via Tiny Ghost Records. Various physical variants and new merch is also on offer, including CD, standard black vinyl, limited-edition two-tone vinyl, t-shirt, and a limited-edition signed poster, exclusively at the official Tiny Ghost Records shop.

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Hitchcock’s 25th solo studio album is his first collection of original songs in nearly four years. 

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Recorded at studios in Hitchcock’s longtime home base of Nashville by Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Jill Sobule) and Jordan Lehning (Kacey Musgraves, Rodney Crowell, Emma Swift), The Confuser features accompaniment from Music City session experts including electric guitarist Jeremy Fetzer (Steelism, Lambchop, Kesha), bass guitarist Todd Bolden, and drummer/percussionist Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Adrian Belew, Taylor Swift). 

Special guests include Gillian Welch (contributing vocals to “Ghost in Sunlight”) and Kimberley Rew (co-founder, with Hitchcock, of The Soft Boys), who lends additional guitar to “Breathless,” “How To Feel Alright,” “Ghost in Sunlight,” and “Growing From The Ruins.” 

As ever, Hitchcock carries the flame for a particular brand of traditional singer-songcraft, a deeply personal penchant sparked by his Summer of Love adolescence (detailed in his acclaimed first memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left) and furthered throughout the myriad cultural metamorphoses that followed. 

“One of my roles has been to keep a certain kind of music alive,” says Hitchcock. “I didn’t invent this field of music, but I’ve perpetuated it. Arguably, the Soft Boys did that, amongst other things. It wasn’t peace and love or ‘oh wow, man, look at these trippy flowers,’ it wasn’t any of that. It was simply a certain kind of sound and a certain kind of feeling that was in those records made between 1965 and 1968 which are now seen as the Big Bang of classic rock, or whatever you want to call it. I’ve just kept that approach to music alive – verse, chorus, middle eight, harmonies, guitar solos, and free-range lyrics. I’m very lucky to be able to do this. I can’t believe I’m still allowed to do it. But nobody’s stopped me, and I’m kind of touching wood that I can carry on doing it a bit longer.”

This month has also seen the publication of Hitchcock’s second memoir, Stranded in the Future (Akashic Books), on sale now wherever books are sold; a limited edition package including a copy of the book and numbered Giclée print, both autographed by Hitchcock, is also available. 

Spanning 1968 to 1978, Stranded in the Future explores the formation of Hitchcock’s seminal 1970s band, the Soft Boys, as well as the obsessions that fueled his early creative output. 

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Hitchcock has an international tour schedule that includes book signings, solo performances, and full band shows across North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe through October. Additional dates will be announced. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.robynhitchcock.com/tour.

Track list: 

I Am This Thing
How To Feel Alright
My Dead Astronaut
Breathless
Ghost in Sunlight
Growing From The Ruins
The Vanishing Kind
Yesterday’s Rain
Wasted
Monday For Me

Live appearances:

JULY

27 – Boston, MA – Porter Square Books *
30 – Chicago, IL – Exile in Bookville *

SEPTEMBER
19 – Saint Leonards-on-Sea, UK – Kino-Teatr
23 – Cambridge, UK – Portland Arms
24 – Ipswich, UK – The Church
25 – Cardiff, UK – Acapela Studio
26 – Manchester, UK – Hallé at St Michaels
27 – Gateshead, UK – The Central
29 – Glasgow, UK – Cottiers Theatre

OCTOBER
1 – Belfast, UK – The Deer’s Head
2 – Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
4 – Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh
6 – Hebden Bridge, UK – Trades Club
7 – Reading, UK – South Street Arts Centre
8 – Bath, UK – Komedia Bath
9 – Twyford, UK – St Mary’s Church, Twyford
10 – London, UK – Union Chapel
11 – Paris, France – Les Trois Baudets
17 – Landsberg Am Lech, Germany – Stadttheater Landsberg
18 – Berlin, Germany – Privatclub
20 – Bergen, Norway – Ole Bull Scene
21 – Trondheim, Norway – Bar Moskus
23 – Drammen, Norway – Drammen Kulturhus
24 – Randaberg, Norway – Tungenes Fyr
25 – Oslo, Norway – BLÅ
27 – København S, Denmark – DR Koncerthuset
28 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Hornstulls Strand
30 – Helsinki, Finland – KULT

NOVEMBER
21 – Birmingham, AL - Saturn

* In Conversation + Book Signing