Paul McCartney's new album of rock'n'roll covers will be titled "Run Devil Run" and will be released Oct. 5 in the U.S. on Capitol and a day earlier in the U.K. on Parlophone/EMI. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the 15-track album features guest appearances by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Deep Purple's Ian Paice; it also includes three new unnamed McCartney originals, one of which is expected to be the first single.

Also on the album is a version of Elvis Presley's 1958 rocker "I Got Stung," which has been posted on McCartney's Web site (www.mplcommunications.com) as a teaser and was broadcast recently on BBC Radio 2.

Another album, "Working Classical," will be released two weeks later on Angel in the U.S. and EMI Classics in the U.K. The set is a mixture of chamber music reworkings of Beatles and Wings songs and orchestral versions of three of McCartney's short classical pieces performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The album will be supported with a major concert at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall in the fall.

EMI Classics will also in February or March 2000 release a studio album of new works by John Taverner, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, and McCartney; the material was premiered Sunday at a charity concert in memory of Linda McCartney at Charterhouse School in Surrey.