{"id":114103,"date":"2025-08-02T22:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114103\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:44:17","slug":"rich-people-who-grew-up-poor-share-the-cheap-money-habits-they-still-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114103\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich people who grew up poor share the ‘cheap’ money habits they still use"},"content":{"rendered":"

By 1973, the Bee Gees<\/a>\u2019 career had hit a low. After a series of hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including “To Love Somebody,” “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” and “I Started a Joke,” the band was in a rut. Their latest album, Life in a Tin Can, and single \u201cSaw a New Morning” sold poorly, and the band\u2019s popularity declined.<\/a><\/p>\n

On April 6, 1973, the Gibb brothers (Barry, Robin, and Maurice) appeared on The Midnight Special, a late-night TV show that aired on Saturday mornings at 1 a.m. after The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Given the lukewarm reception to their recent releases, the Bee Gees decided to change things up and play a medley of hits from their idols, The Beatles, who had broken up<\/a> three years before.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"the\u00a0The Beatles were the biggest band on Earth in their heyday.\u00a0\u00a0Giphy<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The performance, which featured five of the Fab Four\u2019s early hits, including \u201cIf I Fell,\u201d \u201cI Need You,\u201d \u201cI’ll Be Back,\u201d \u201cThis Boy,\u201d and \u201cShe Loves You,\u201d was a stripped-down, acoustic performance that highlighted the Bee Gees’ trademark harmonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you got brothers singing, it\u2019s like an instrument that no one else can buy. You can\u2019t go buy that sound in a shop. You can\u2019t sing like The Bee Gees because when you got family members singing together, it\u2019s unique,\u201d Noel Gallagher, who sang with his brother Liam in Oasis, said according to Far Out.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0– YouTube\u00a0\u00a0youtu.be<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

A year later, the Bee Gees performed in small clubs<\/a>, and it looked like their career had hit a dead end. Then, at the urging of their management, the band began to move in a new direction, incorporating soul, rhythm and blues, and a new, underground musical style called disco into their repertoire. Barry also adopted a falsetto singing style<\/a> popularized by Black singers such as Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye.<\/p>\n

This unlikely change for the folksy vocal group catapulted them into the stratosphere and they became the white-satin-clad kings of disco.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"\/\u00a0john travolta disco GIF by uDiscoverMusic\u00a0\u00a0Giphy<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the late \u201870s, the band had massive hits, including songs featured on the 40-million-selling <\/a>Saturday Night Fever soundtrack: \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive,\u201d How Deep is Your Love,\u201d More Than a Woman,\u201d Jive Talkin\u2019,\u201d and \u201cNight Fever.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1978, the band made a significant misstep<\/a>, starring in a musical based on The Beatles’ music called Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band, produced by Robert Stigwood<\/a>, the man behind Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The film was a colossal bomb, although the soundtrack sold well.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0– YouTube\u00a0\u00a0www.youtube.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Beatles’ George Harrison thought the Bee Gees film was about what happens when you become successful and greedy.<\/p>\n

“I just feel sorry for Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees, and Pete Frampton for doing it because they had established themselves in their own right as decent artists,\u201d Harrison said.<\/a> “And suddenly\u2026 it’s like the classic thing of greed. The more you make the more you want to make, until you become so greedy that ultimately you put a foot wrong.”<\/p>\n

Even though the Bee Gees\u2019 Beatle-themed musical was a flop, former Beatle John Lennon remained a fan of the group. He sang their praises after the public\u2019s growing distaste of disco resulted in a significant backlash.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"john\u00a0John Lennon was a fan of the Bee Gees.\u00a0\u00a0Giphy<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Try to tell the kids in the seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just the Beatles redone,\u201d he told Playboy magazine in 1980.<\/a> \u201cThere is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees. They do a damn good job. There was nothing else going on then.”<\/p>\n

The Bee Gees historic career ended when Maurice passed away in 2003 at 53. Robin would follow in 2009 at 62. Barry is the final surviving member of the band.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By 1973, the Bee Gees\u2019 career had hit a low. After a series of hits in the late…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,39829,71816,14998,71818,71819,16790,16791,71817,6459,7547,16792,255,16798,7545,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cheap","10":"tag-cheap-money","11":"tag-financial-advice","12":"tag-financial-hardship","13":"tag-financial-success","14":"tag-frugal","15":"tag-frugal-living","16":"tag-grow-up-poor","17":"tag-money","18":"tag-money-advice","19":"tag-money-habits","20":"tag-personal-finance","21":"tag-save-money","22":"tag-saving-money","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961597304516261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}