Hsien mentioned earlier that Greg Page is not only known as the (now former) yellow Wiggle, but that he has had success as a solo artist as well. The album mentioned earlier is performed by Greg Page and the TCB Band, which was Elvis Presley’s band. Apparently, Greg is the first Australian to perform and record with TCB.

I came across a fun interview with Greg at Elvis Australia from 2002. He shares a lot of his impressions of and adoration for Elvis Presley. There are also just some fun bits about The Wiggles and listening to Elvis on the road because Anthony Field had it constantly playing on road trips. It’s also mentioned that their only goal in the beginning was to release one children’s album. They’ve come a long way from that!

There was one sad bit in the interview. When asked about the longevity of The Wiggles, Greg replied:

We’ve always said that when the day comes that we don’t enjoy doing it anymore, then that’s the day that we hang up the skivvies!! We started this because of our love for music/education/children, so when we don’t have that passion anymore, that’s when we call it a day. (OR when our bodies just can’t physically keep up with the pace anymore - whichever comes first!!)

Thankfully, the passion lives on, and we haven’t lost The Wiggles, yet! Hopefully, Greg’s condition will still allow him to pursue his love and passion for music in his solo career.

The Wiggles are great guys. Look at their big smiles on what is probably a very sad day in their lives.

Anthony Field Wiggle, the blue wiggle:

It’s very surreal that Greg’s not going to be with us, very sad.

Myself, Murray and Jeff. We actually said to each other, ‘do you want to keep going?’ and we said ‘yes, we’d love to keep going’.

Here’s to another 15 years of The Wiggles!

The Courier-Mail, November 30, 2006

Baldman, the oldest 2 kids and I all got to go see The Wiggles LIVE show last night. Way fun! They performed all of our favorite Wiggles songs, and kept the kids entertained for almost an hour and a half. It was fun to hear The Wiggles refer to our local history and one of our historic neighborhoods. Turns out they were only about 5 minutes from my house at some point in the day! (Yeah, I tend to get a bit starstruck.)

I love the venue where we saw them. It’s not a huge place to start with, and the stage came out to about the middle of the floor, so there really wasn’t a bad seat in the house.

Due to a wreck that caused a huge traffic jam, the show did start about 1/2 hour late. I thought it was very considerate of them to wait long enough to allow people time to get in, though I think those who arrived early may not have been so appreciative (yes, I mean you, crazy guy who tried to get your kids to start a prison riot-type chanting of “We want the Wiggles!”).

Of course, everyone was disappointed not to see Greg there. The official quote from Murray to the audience was:

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