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Paul McCartney scored a film about an unconsummated marriage, in 1966

Ruben Bolling
Mar 16, 2026
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In 1966, between “Revolver” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” at the very height of his Beatle powers, Paul McCartney composed the score for the 1967 British movie “The Family Way,” about young newlyweds unable to consummate their marriage, starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett.

McCartney wrote two piano pieces and then Beatles producer Geor…

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