# Greg Page (musician)
**Greg Page** is an Australian musician, best known as an original member of the children's music group [The Wiggles](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-wiggles), in which he performed as the Yellow Wiggle until 2006.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) • [9](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/) A founder of the group alongside [Anthony Field](https://www.edgepedia.org/anthony-field), Murray Cook, and [Jeff Fatt](https://www.edgepedia.org/jeff-fatt), he performed with the band during a period when they were Australia's biggest moneymaking act five years in a row.[5](https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/611354) • [3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) After collapsing in cardiac arrest at a bushfire-relief Wiggles reunion show in January 2020, he became a campaigner for heart health and founded the charity Heart of the Nation.[4](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf) • [1](https://anniemusical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ANNIE-Greg-Page-to-join-the-Cast-290125-1.pdf) • [4](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf) He returned to the band for a few months in 2012, and in 2022 The Wiggles were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) • [2](https://www.gregpage.com/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Output with the band | More than 4,500 concerts performed and over 400 songs written for children and their carers[2](https://www.gregpage.com/) |
| Departure cause | Diagnosed in 2006 with orthostatic intolerance, a circulation disorder causing fainting spells and slurred speech[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) |
| 2020 health event | Collapsed in cardiac arrest at a bushfire-relief Wiggles reunion show in January 2020, revived with CPR and a defibrillator[4](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf) |
| Charity | Founder of Heart of the Nation, promoting automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness[1](https://anniemusical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ANNIE-Greg-Page-to-join-the-Cast-290125-1.pdf) |
| Recognition | The Wiggles were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2022[2](https://www.gregpage.com/) |
## The Wiggles, 1991–2006
Page studied early childhood education at [Macquarie University](https://www.edgepedia.org/macquarie-university) in Sydney with Anthony Field and [Murray Cook](https://www.edgepedia.org/murray-cook); Field, a former member of the 1980s Sydney rock band [The Cockroaches](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-cockroaches), recruited his former bandmate Jeff Fatt on keyboards, and the four began writing children's songs with the idea of making music suited to a child's development.[5](https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/611354) Page was the youngest member of the group.[6](https://notreallyaustralian.blogspot.com/2009/05/greg-page-thanks-jack.html)
The band's name came from the Cockroaches song "Everybody Wiggle", which became "Get Ready to Wiggle"; Page later recounted that Cook suggested "Wiggles" because it reminded him of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, and the name stuck because wiggling describes the way children dance.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) • [5](https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/611354) The first song Page wrote for the group was "Rock-A-Bye Your Bear", which appeared on the band's self-titled debut album of 1991 and became one of the songs most identified with the group.[7](https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/Greg_Page) • [2](https://www.gregpage.com/)
The group's commercial scale grew quickly. By the 2000s The Wiggles were Australia's biggest moneymaking act five years in a row, ahead of figures such as [Nicole Kidman](https://www.edgepedia.org/nicole-kidman), Russell Crowe, and AC/DC, performing up to 520 shows a year, sometimes three or four in a single day, and earning around $40 million annually.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) Page performed magic tricks as his stage role in the act, alongside Field's eating gags, Cook's face-making, and Fatt's falling asleep.[8](https://bradley-jacobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/the-wide-world-of-wiggles.pdf) His yellow skivvy from 1997–2006, designed by Maria Petrozzi, is held in the Powerhouse collection in Sydney.[5](https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/611354)
**Departure and return.** Page left the group in 2006 after being diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance, a circulation disorder that caused fainting spells and slurred speech and left him too tired to keep touring; he was replaced as the Yellow Wiggle.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) • [9](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/) He returned to the band for a few months in 2012, but left again when two other original members retired, after which the group continued with a new lineup.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) In 2022 The Wiggles were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[2](https://www.gregpage.com/)
## Cardiac arrest and Heart of the Nation
In January 2020, at a Wiggles reunion show raising money for bushfire relief, Page collapsed on stage, stopped breathing, and was revived using a defibrillator.[4](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf) The event occurred a day after his 48th birthday.[10](https://newmedia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Jocks-Journal-January-2026.pdf) An off-duty nurse in the audience performed CPR and used an automated external defibrillator to save him, aided by Wiggles staff.[9](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/) • [10](https://newmedia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Jocks-Journal-January-2026.pdf) Page later described the underlying heart disease as one that had not been causing him problems in everyday life, calling the collapse "kind of a freak event".[9](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/)
Following the event he became an advocate for heart health and AED awareness, founding Heart of the Nation, a charitable initiative that pushes for defibrillators in businesses and homes and maps their locations on an app available across Australia; it has promoted a yellow "Heart of the Nation AED Inside" sign indicating that a defibrillator is available at a premises.[1](https://anniemusical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ANNIE-Greg-Page-to-join-the-Cast-290125-1.pdf) • [4](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf)
## Solo work and other ventures
Outside the band Page released non-Wiggle albums and children's material. His first holiday album, *Here Comes Christmas*, contained 26 songs, four of them original, with the rest classics such as "Frosty the Snowman" and "The Christmas Song" arranged with children's audiences in mind; he also had a children's television project, *Butterscotch's Playground*.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php) In 2026 he released a new recording of "Rock-A-Bye Your Bear" to mark 35 years since the release of the first Wiggles album in 1991, which had reached double platinum status in Australia.[2](https://www.gregpage.com/)
Page is a collector of [Elvis Presley](https://www.edgepedia.org/elvis-presley) memorabilia, rated the fourth best such collection in the world by collectors, including Presley's last Cadillac, a piano, stage outfits, and movie costumes; the collection has been on loan to an Australian museum.[3](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php)
## Musical theater
In January 2025 it was announced that Page would play President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the new Australian production of the musical *Annie*, which opened in March at Sydney's Capitol Theatre and moved to Melbourne's Princess Theatre in July, alongside Anthony Warlow as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.[1](https://anniemusical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ANNIE-Greg-Page-to-join-the-Cast-290125-1.pdf) Page said the role fulfilled a long-held ambition and described the chief difference from The Wiggles as the demand for consistency rather than improvisation; he has said he is open to a further Wiggles reunion tour if the other original members are keen.[11](https://www.aussietheatre.com.au/features/from-wiggle-to-the-white-house-greg-page-chats-annie/) • [9](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/)
## References
1. [Original Wiggle Greg Page to join the cast of Annie – media release, Annie the Musical (29 January 2025)](https://anniemusical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ANNIE-Greg-Page-to-join-the-Cast-290125-1.pdf)
2. [Greg Page – official website](https://www.gregpage.com/)
3. [Ken Hoffman, "Australian Greg Page puts a Wiggles spin on Christmas classics", Houston Chronicle (20 November 2015)](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Australian-Greg-Page-puts-a-Wiggles-spin-on-6647053.php)
4. [Allen Newton, "Get a wiggle on and support the heart of the nation initiative", Have-A-Go News No. 358 (January 2022)](https://www.haveagonews.com.au/paper/01-2022/358digital.pdf)
5. [Powerhouse Collection – 'The Wiggles' costume worn by Greg Page](https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/611354)
6. [The Blog that Used to Be About Australia: Greg Page (May 2009)](https://notreallyaustralian.blogspot.com/2009/05/greg-page-thanks-jack.html)
7. [Greg Page – Wigglepedia (Fandom)](https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/Greg_Page)
8. [Bradley Jacobs, "The Wide World of Wiggles"](https://bradley-jacobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/the-wide-world-of-wiggles.pdf)
9. ["The OG Yellow Wiggle Greg Page is enjoying being back on stage", Now To Love (4 June 2025)](https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/greg-page-wiggles-tour/)
10. [Jocks' Journal, Volume 38 (January 2026)](https://newmedia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Jocks-Journal-January-2026.pdf)
11. [Gabi Bergman, "From Wiggle to the White House: Greg Page chats Annie", AussieTheatre (9 June 2025)](https://www.aussietheatre.com.au/features/from-wiggle-to-the-white-house-greg-page-chats-annie/)
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