Paul McCartney will once again reissue his 1973 album Band on the Run, this time in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
It will be released on February 2nd in a variety of formats including vinyl, which mirrors the U.S. tracklist featuring "Helen Wheels," and it contains a Linda McCartney Polaroid poster.
There is also a two-disc vinyl set with the second LP titled “Underdubbed” Mixes Edition. Paul says it's "Band on the Run in a way you’ve never heard before. When you are making a song and putting on additional parts, like an extra guitar, that’s an overdub. Well, this version of the album is the opposite, underdubbed.”
The "underdubbed" version of the title track will be released this Thursday.
And of course you can get it on CD, as well as digitally and in Dolby ATMOS, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard.
This will be the fourth time the album has been reissued.
The first was in 1993 as part of the Paul McCartney Collection series with "Helen Wheels" and its B-side, "Country Dreamer," as bonus tracks.
- In 1996, it was released in 5.1 surround sound.
- 1999 saw a 25th anniversary edition.
- In 2010, it was reissued by Hear Music/Concord Music Group as the first release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection.
- In 2010, for Record Store Day, a vinyl single of "Band on the Run" and "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" was released.
McCartney is on tour in Brazil with his next show set for tonight (Monday). Band on the Run initially came out on December 5th, 1973.