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==Early life and education== Field was born in [[Kellyville, New South Wales]], Australia. He is the youngest of seven children, and grew up in north western Sydney.<ref name="field-12"> {{Harvnb|Field|2012|p=12}}</ref> He came from a long line of musicians, especially the women in his family. His great-great aunt was [[Queenie Paul]], known for performing at the [[New Tivoli Theatre, Sydney|Tivoli Theatre]] in Sydney, and his grandmother Kathleen accompanied silent movies in the mining town of Cobar. Field's mother, Marie, made sure that all of her seven children learned how to play at least one musical instrument.<ref name="paulfield">{{cite web|url=http://www.currencyhouse.org.au/sites/default/files/transcripts/APL061108_Paul_Field.pdf|title=It's a Wiggly Wiggly World|access-date=21 July 2020|last=Field|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Field (musician)|date=8 November 2006|publisher=Currency House|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322075451/https://currencyhouse.org.au/sites/default/files/transcripts/APL061108_Paul_Field.pdf|archive-date=22 March 2015 }}</ref> He attended the all-boys boarding school [[St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill|St Joseph's College]], which his great-grandfather Paddy Condon, an Italian immigrant and master [[stonemason]], helped build.<ref name="field-12"/> He was inspired by his sister Colleen to study [[early childhood education]], and became convinced that teaching preschool children "was my calling".<ref>{{Harvnb|Field|2012|p=20}}.</ref> He was also attracted to the profession's freedom, artistic nature, and lack of discipline, which was different from his experience in boarding school.<ref>Field admitted that another draw to the field was the fact that women outnumbered the men at Macquarie's program (Field, p. 21).</ref> Field put off university when the Cockroaches became successful, but he was dissatisfied with touring and plagued by "perhaps irrational, but very real, feelings of inadequacy and depression".<ref name="field-18">{{Harvnb|Field|2012|p=18}}</ref> By his mid-twenties, he decided that he did not want to tour any longer, so he took two breaks. His first break was as an [[infantry|infantry soldier]], [[rifleman]], [[stretcher bearer]], and ambulance driver in the [[5th/7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]], [[Australian Army|Australia's regular army]] from 1982 to 1985. He played the [[bagpipes]] in parades and on training missions,<ref>{{cite web|title=Anthony|work=The Wiggles Official Website|url=http://www.thewiggles.com/us/about/thewiggles/anthony|access-date=1 August 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025325/http://www.thewiggles.com/us/about/thewiggles/anthony|archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref><ref name="whatsup">{{cite news|last = Iacuzio|first = Tom|title = What's Up with The Wiggles?|work = Daytona Beach News-Journal|date = 15 November 2007|access-date = 16 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115164346/http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Entertainment/Music/entMUS01111307.htm|archive-date=15 November 2007|url-status=dead|url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Entertainment/Music/entMUS01111307.htm}}</ref> but ended his military service in July 1985 and suffered from a bad back as a result of his training.<ref name="field-18" /> He also went backpacking in the U.K., listening to [[Folk music|roots music]], to children's music by artists like [[Raffi]], and to recordings of children's books.<ref>{{Harvnb|Field|2012|p=23}}</ref>
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