Well, it had to happen. There’s going to be a Special Edition of The Boys of Dungeon Lane released. The surprising thing is that the announcement comes on the very day that The Beatles’ Rubber Soul SDE hits the shops!

So far this looks to be a store exclusive, available only through McCartney’s official sites (UK and USA), plus Universal online store outlets like The Circle in Germany, Universal Australia, etc.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane (Special Edition) contains four new tracks, including a new version of ‘Home To Us’, his duet with Ringo Starr, alongside three previously unreleased songs recorded during the Dungeon Lane sessions: ‘City Fox’, ‘One Night Stand’ and ‘Chelsea Boots’.

As you can see the Special Edition is a double LP with orange and blue marble discs. It comes in a unique gatefold jacket with cover artwork adapted from the brilliant silkscreened collage by Kate Gibb using over 100 images from Paul’s personal archive; a 23″ x 23″ double-sided fold-out poster with a re-coloured silkscreen portrait print of Paul on one side and lyrics and credits on the other, plus prints of Paul’s handwriting on the inner sleeves and gatefold spread.

The double LP has three playing sides.

Interestingly Side 4 is a Zoetrope etching disc.

There’s also a CD and digital download editions:

The CD comes in a softpak gatefold jacket with the same collage cover artwork as the LP, plus a 20 page lyric and credits booklet.

The digital release is available October 7. The CD and 2LP versions are out on December 9th.