Imagine you’d never heard a song by The Beatles until this year. Now imagine you hear Eleanor Rigby or Paperback Writer or Hey Jude for the first time and you know you’ve just heard the best band ever.
Now imagine (no pun intended, well, only slightly) that you thought John Lennon was still alive – and you then find out he was shot forty years ago.
So, now you’ve not only found out The Beatles are the best band ever – you are also devastated that they will also never play another song again.
Now you may say I’m a dreamer… but if you imagine all that happening to you this year, then you know exactly how I feel after hearing my first song by The Wiggles only to find that Emma Wiggle left the band in 2022. Nooooooo!
The Wiggles are/were the biggest kids band in the world. They started out in Australia in the early 90s and have gone through a number of changes in the last 30 years. Today, there are eight Wiggles, with only one survivor from the original line up: Anthony Field (their Paul McCartney).
But the version I heard was the 2011 – 2022 line up, when they had Emma Wiggle as the lead singer, the first female Wiggle.
And they were BRILLIANT!
And then I found out that Emma left the band in 2022 and they’re now onto another line up, which is great, but like watching Wings and not The Beatles.
This year, with a two year old who absolutely loves the Wiggles and wants to watch them all the time, my music listening has been almost entirely Wiggle based, which has been fantastic as they have so many great songs including the following:
Emma’s Yellow Bow
The Wonder Of Wiggle Town
Wake Up Lachy
And the greatest song of all time: Rattlin’ Bog:
Twin brothers swimming, cycling and running in Scotland 