Editing Anthony Field (section)

{{short description|Australian musician and actor}}
{{other people||Tony Field (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Anthony Field
| image             = Anthony Field in Toronto - 2018 (44167590694) (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Field in 2018
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| honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}}
| birth_name        = Anthony Donald Joseph Field
| alias             =
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1963|5|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Kellyville, New South Wales]], Australia
| background        = person<!-- track if single person or group for hCard microformat: use value "person" or "group_or_band". -->
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| death_date        =
| instruments       = {{hlist|[[Guitar]]|[[drums]]|[[vocals]]|[[violin]]|[[didgeridoo]]|[[Bouzouki]]|[[banjo]]|[[bagpipes]]|[[trumpet]]|[[Bass (guitar)|bass]]|[[tin whistle]]}}
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Children's music|Children's]]|[[Pop music|pop]]|[[Rock Music|rock]]}}
| occupations       = {{hlist|[[Musician]]|[[actor]]|[[songwriter]]|[[Record producer|producer]]}}
| years_active      = 1979–present
| current_member_of = [[The Wiggles]]
| past_member_of    = [[the Cockroaches]]
| spouse            = {{marriage|Miki Patisteas|2003}}
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| children          = 3, including [[Lucia Field]]
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| website           = https://www.thewiggles.com/
}}
'''Anthony Donald Joseph Field''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 8 May 1963)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/174773624|title=How I got my wiggle back : a memoir of healing|first1=Anthony|last1=Field|first2=Greg|last2=Truman|date=31 July 2018|publisher=Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley|access-date=31 July 2018|via=Trove}}</ref><!-- NLA book entry lists 1963 as birth year --> is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the leader of the children's group [[the Wiggles]] and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band [[the Cockroaches]]. While still a teenager, he helped found the Cockroaches with his brothers, [[Paul Field (musician)|Paul]] and [[John Field (songwriter)|John]]. The Cockroaches recorded two albums and enjoyed moderate success, interrupted by Field's service in the [[Australian Army|Army]], until they disbanded in the late 1980s.

Field attended [[Macquarie University]] to receive training in early childhood education, and founded [[the Wiggles]] with fellow students [[Murray Cook]], [[Greg Page (musician)|Greg Page]] and former bandmate [[Jeff Fatt]] in 1991. He worked as a preschool teacher for two years before the success of the Wiggles led him to focus on children's music full-time. The Wiggles became one of the most successful and active groups in Australia. Field, who wears a blue shirt while performing with the Wiggles, was responsible for the production aspects of their stage and television shows, albums, and DVDs. His issues with chronic pain and [[clinical depression|depression]], which almost forced him out of the group at the height of their success, are well-documented. After the departure of Cook, Fatt, and Page in 2012, he is the only remaining original Wiggle.