The document provides biographical information about the Australian children's musical group The Wiggles. It discusses their origins in the early 1990s with original members Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. It describes their evolution into a hugely popular international franchise producing music and television shows aimed at preschoolers. It also notes that Greg Page stepped down in 2012 due to health issues and was replaced by Sam Moran as the new Yellow Wiggle. The document portrays The Wiggles as Australian megastars who are still going strong today through live performances and productions.
2. The Wiggles
Biography
The Wiggles, megastars?The Wiggles, megastars?
Or just four men on a first-nameOr just four men on a first-name
basis with half of the world’sbasis with half of the world’s
population.population.
•MurrayMurray
• JeffJeff
•AnthonyAnthony
•Greg (now Sam)Greg (now Sam)
You can’t have one without the other.You can’t have one without the other.
3. The Wiggles – In the beginning
• The Field brothers (Anthony,
Paul and John) and their friend
Jeff Fatt had a band called The
Cockroaches.
• In the early 90’s, Anthony met
Greg and Murray at university.
• When The Cockroaches finished
they became The Wiggles.
• Paul Field became their manager.
4. • In 1991 - Paul Field had an idea
to put the group’s kindergarten
training to good use.
• Encouraged by their new
manager – (Paul Field) the band
decided to become children’s
entertainers.
• They were christened The
Wiggles
The Wiggles - Evolution
5. • The band continued to grow
with Captain Feather Sword,
Wags the Dog, Dorothy
Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus
and Officer Peoples and
several dancers
• One of the dancers was
Anthony’s niece, Clare who
commenced on the show at 8
years old and is still
performing with them today
The Wiggles - Evolution
6. • The Wiggles became so
successful around the world
that there are now
international “franchises”.
• Spanish Wiggles, Chinese
Wiggles (The Chiggles),
Japanese Wiggles, Greek
Wiggles, Russian Wiggles
are just a few to join the
The Wiggles - World
Domination
7. The Wiggles - Hello Yellow
• Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page experienced
health problems during a tour of the
USA in 2008.
• He would faint on stage or get so
exhausted he couldn’t perform.
• Greg was diagnosed with a rare
nervous system disorder called
orthostatic intolerance and became
progressively worse.
• Greg announced his retirement and
Sam Moran became the new face in the
Yellow skivvy.
8. The Wiggles – Hello Yellow
•Sam Moran had been a dancer on
the Wiggles and an opera singer.
•He first performed as an
understudy to Greg, when he fell
ill.
•As the new Yellow Wiggle, Sam
has said he felt pressured and
found it hard to fit in.
•Very soon, people got used to
him.
9. • The Wiggles are still very
popular around the world
and are still going strong
today!
• The band performs more
then 500 sell-out shows
each year
• The group was named
UNICEF goodwill
ambassadors in early 2008
The Wiggles – Keep on
Wiggling
10. Mulga Bill by A.B Paterson
Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk,
That caught the cycling craze;
He turned away his good old horse
That served him many days;
He dressed himself in cycling clothes,
Resplendent to be seen;
He hurried off to town and brought,
A shining new machine;
And as he wheeled it through the door,
With air of lordly pride,
The grinning shop assistant said
“Excuse me can you ride?”
11. Mulga Bill by A.B Paterson
PoemSee here young man said Mulga Bill
From Walgett to the sea,
From Conroy’s gap to Castlereagh,
There’s none can ride like me
I’m good all round at everything,
As every body knows,
Although I’m not the one to talk
I hate a man that blows.
But riding is my special gift,
My chiefest sole delight;
Just as a wild duck can swim,
A wild cat can it fight.
12. Mulga Bill by A.B Paterson
There’s nothing clothed in hair or hide,
Or built of flesh or steel,
There’s nothing walks or jumps, or runs,
On axle hoof or wheel
But what I’ll sit,
While hide will hold and girths straps are tight;
I’ll ride this here two wheeled concern
Right straight away at sight.”
Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk,
That sought his own abode,
That perched above Dead Man’s Creek,
Beside the mountain road
13. Mulga Bill by A.B Paterson
He turned the cycle down the hill
And mounted for the fray,
But ere he’d gone a dozen yards
It bolted clean away
It left the track, and through the trees
Just like a silver streak,
It whistled down the awful slope
Towards Dead Mans Creek.
It shaved a stump by half an inch,
It dodged a big white- box:
The very wallaroos in fright,
Went scrambling up the rocks
14. Mulga Bill A.B Paterson
All the wombats in their caves,
Dug deeper under ground,
But Mulga Bill as white as chalk,
Sat tight to every bound.
It struck a stone
And gave a spring
That cleared a fallen tree,
It raced beside a precipice as close as it could be
And then,
As Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek
It made a leap of twenty feet
Into the Dead Man’s Creek
15. Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk,
That slowly swam ashore
He said “I’ve had some narrer shaves
And lively rides before;
I’ve rode wild bull round a yard
To win a five pound bet
But this was sure derndest ride
That I’ve encountered yet
I’ll give that two wheeled out law best;
It’s shaken all my nerve
To feel it whistle through the air
And plunge, buck and swerve
It’s safe at rest in Dead Man’s Creek
We’ll leave it lying still;
A horse’s back is good enough
Henceforth for Mulga Bill
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Mulga Bill by A.B Paterson
16. Poem Justification
• Mulga Bill was an appropriate poem because
contains so many place names specific to Australia :
“Eaglehawk”, “Walgett”, “Conroy’s Gap”,
“Castlereagh” and “Dead Man’s Creek.”
• The language is also a great sense of early Australia;
“narrer”, “derndest”and “ere”.
• The flora and fauna of Australia is also captured in
the : “Big white Box”, “Wallaroos” and “Wombats”
17. Poem Justification
• Mulga Bill is a poem about a boastful young man who discovers a
bicycle.
• Even though Mulga Bill doesn’t have any idea about what a bicycle is
or how you ride it. He takes the typpical Australian approach of “giving
it a go”. As with any rip stick, sports car or skate board he has to try
the ‘next best thing’.
• You can imagine your friend rushing out to buy a rip-stick the very first
day goes on sale.
• Then you can imagine them taking it to school , telling everyone how
good she can ride it – but then, falling off spectacularly.
• Amidst the laughter of the crowd, the friend decides to try again
18. Poem Justification
• After school, they decide to get the rip stick out and ride it
home.
• Forgetting that they still haven’t practised enough – the
downward hill is way too fast and they start hurtling down
a hill
• Finally they crash at the bottom of the hill perhaps in
someone’s front yard or a pig sty.
• A Modern Day Mulga Bill
• I’ve known the poem Mulga Bill all my life and I think that
it’s a great Australian story to pass on as it reminds us of the
spirited nature of Australians
19. Flag Justification
• The word flag according to the Usborne illustrated
dictionary is: a piece of cloth with pattern on it that
is a symbol of an organization or country
• My flag design represents Indigenous Australians
with the boomerang. Early Colonial Australia and
the country’s flora and fauna are represented by the
coat of arms.
• Lastly, the Southern Cross represents Australia’s
unique place in the world under the Southern sky.
20. Song
• I've been to cities that never close down
From New York to Rio and old London town
But no matter how far
Or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.
• I'm always travelin'
And I love bein' free
So I keep leavin' the sun and the sea
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home.
• All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the world
Away from their families and friends
Ah, but as the world gets older and colder
It's good to know where your journey ends.
• And someday we'll all be together once more
When all the ships come back to the shore
Then I realize something I've always known
I still call Australia home.
• No matter how far
Or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.
21. Song Justification
• I chose the Peter Allen song; ‘I still call Australia Home’
because it refers again to places exclusive to Australia.
• It compares Australia to the great cities of the world New
York, Paris, London and then at the end of each chorus
draws the audience back to Australia “ I still call Australia
home”.
• That to me shows one of the qualities of an Australian. We
like to travel and with our sense of adventure we enjoy the
excitement and glamour the world has to offer.
• But “no matter how far, or how wide” we roam, we are always
proud to be Australian and at the end of our adventures
Australia draws us back.
• I feel that our great sense of place is one of the best
qualities in an Australian.
23. Artwork Justification
• Shearing the rams was by Tom Roberts and painted in
the late 1800s. I think that this painting relates to
Australia because of the landscape, the way the men are
working and the color. The way the landscape contrasts
with the rest of the painting I feel explains Australia. I
think the faces of the men are Australian because they
all look so hard working and there’s the real Aussie feel
to it. I think that the color of the painting is fantastic.
Because of the color the mens faces are red and have a
working expression on them, the landscape is a colorful
and happy atmosphere.