This is the improbable story of The Wiggles, four friends who recorded a one-off album of children's music in the early | dG1fX09WdnVyNHdqNzQ
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00:00 Interview take one.
00:01 Hi, where are the Wiggles?
00:08 They're like the Beatles for toddlers.
00:11 These tickets were harder than the stones and spring.
00:14 There's a reason for the colours.
00:17 There needs to be a psychology of why this hits.
00:20 We met at university doing a course in early childhood.
00:25 This connection with music and teaching is what became the Wiggles.
00:30 Booking agents said, "What am I going to do with four men and a dinosaur?"
00:33 Producers said, "Your videos make us cringe."
00:36 Oh, no! He's asleep!
00:38 I remember saying, "Let's just try it anyway."
00:41 All of a sudden, we were doing 10,000-seat arenas.
00:44 It was just...
00:45 Three more tomorrow.
00:48 We'll get there.
00:50 People didn't really talk about mental health much in the '90s.
00:54 If you're successful, what have you got to be sad about?
00:56 But it was as bad as it could be.
00:59 It's horrible to see your mates get affected like that.
01:02 Greg Page is suffering a mystery illness.
01:04 It means that my body doesn't pump enough blood around.
01:07 Now I'm going to hand over the yellow skivvy
01:10 to the new yellow Wiggle, Sam Moran.
01:12 It doesn't matter who's wearing the skivvy,
01:16 as long as we reflect our audience
01:18 and they're communicating with children.
01:20 We might be responsible for their first experience of music.
01:25 Can you sing and do the actions with us?
01:27 Yes.
01:28 -Love from here. -Love from here.
01:35 I so love you guys.
01:37 If you can't bring any sort of happy memory,
01:40 I'm really privileged to be able to do that.
01:42 This is my childhood computer.
01:44 Get ready to wiggle!
01:45 Come on!
01:47 Childhood is never history. Childhood is always with us.
01:50 CHILDHOOD IS ALWAYS WITH US
01:53 CHILDHOOD IS ALWAYS WITH US
01:56 (upbeat music)
01:59 [BLANK_AUDIO]