The Wiggles Biography
The original children’s music group The Wiggles formed in 1991 and had four members including Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Gregory Page and Jeffery Fatt. Page, Field and Cook met at Macquarie University while studying early childhood education and wrote children’s songs as projects. Fatt and Field knew each other as they were both in the same band The Cockroaches, eventually Fatt joined the group to record the first Wiggles album which was the beginning of The Wiggles.
Anthony Donald Joseph Field
Anthony field is best known as the founder and BLUE member of the wiggles. Field was a preschool teacher for two years until the success of the wiggles took over. Field was also part of military service which ended for him in
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Born in Cowra NSW. He was a part of the bands The Transistors, Finger Guns and Bang Shang a Lang but Cook was disappointed when his music career didn’t work out and so attended Macquarie University where he met Anthony and Greg and formed The Wiggles. On 26 January he was made Member of the Order of Australia and 2015 was the Australian jury for the junior Eurovision song contest 2015.
Gregory John Page
Gregory page was well known as the YELLOW wiggle. Born in Sydney NSW. Page was a roadie of The Cockroaches and took advice from Field to study early childhood education. Page also suffered double hernia which required an operation diagnosed with a chronic illness called dysautonomia. Page owned the 4th largest collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia in the world which he donated for $1.5 million he also was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010.
Jeffery Wayne Fatt
Fatt is well known as the PURPLE wiggle. Born in casino NSW 21st July 1953. Fatt wanted to pursue being an architect and received a bachelor of arts in industrial design however he later went on to playing keyboard for the Rockability band and the Road Masters until he was asked to join The Cockroaches by Anthony. Fatt was diagnosed with heart arrhythmia in 2011 and was fitted a pacemaker at Sydney’s Mater
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The Wiggles are successful on the part that the whole brand was self-financed and created by themselves. For the first 6 years Fatt did the bookkeeping as well as banking and merchandising.
Between 1996 and 1997 they financed their first TV show with the money they saved from touring and making videos and produced 13 episodes which channel 7 Australia bought, eventually they sold the show to ABC and also managed to sell it to Disney Australia.
The Wiggles also promoted Australian children entertainment overseas, to pursue that they franchised a Spanish and Mandarin Wiggle group but they found that the countries preferred dubbing the show in their own language but the songs to be sung in English and so have stopped franchising more groups.
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