The Wiggles are a famous children's entertainment group from Australia that formed in the year 1991 when founder, Anthony Field, "had the idea to make a children's album". He met fellow founding members Murray Cook and Greg Page at Macquarie University, where all three were studying early childhood education. He later recruited Jeff Fatt. who he was previously band mates with in the pop group The Cockroaches, and Phillip Wilcher, a music instructor at Macquarie. Wilcher left the group soon after