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Paul Field (born 3 May 1961) is an Australian musician. He is best known as one of the founding members of the Sydney pop music group The Cockroaches and The Field Brothers and as Managing Director for the children's music group The Wiggles.

Early life and education
Field was educated at St Joseph's College Hunters Hill, where he excelled as a rugby player and musician. Upon leaving school he attained his teaching qualification from Australian Catholic University and a diploma of religious education from Aquinas Academy in Sydney.

In the late 70s, while still at boarding school he and his brothers John and Anthony formed the pop group The Cockroaches. Paul served as lead vocalist for the band and also booked their first live shows in pubs in the inner city of Sydney and Kings Cross. The Cockroaches enjoyed some success in Australia, being awarded one Gold and one Platinum album for sales with a total of five albums released, a national top ten single and three top 40 hits, appearances on pop shows such as "Countdown", "Sounds" an "Hey Hey It's Saturday" over a number of years and features in pop fanzines as "Smash Hits". The Cockroaches were described by Rock historian Glenn A Baker as "the quintessential meat and potatoes rock and roll band" Sydney's Daily Telegraph polled the booking agencies and declared The Cockroaches the hardest working band in Australia in 1987(by the number of shows played in one year) the band played over 300 shows in one year.

The Cockroaches
In September 1988, while The Cockroaches were on tour in Queensland, Field's eight-month old daughter Bernadette died of SIDS. Her death "had a devastating effect on everyone involved", but The Cockroaches went back on tour to "create a sense of normality" and because he "had bills to pay". By early 1989, however, "nothing was ever the same again"; Anthony Field left the band to attend Macquarie University to study Early Childhood Education, and The Cockroaches disbanded. Anthony formed The Wiggles in 1991, with Murray Cook, Greg Page, and fellow Cockroaches band member Jeff Fatt, and they dedicated their first album to his niece.

Paul worked as a tipstaff to His Honour Justice James Wood at the Supreme Court of New South Wales for three years. He then worked at The Royal Commission Into the New South Wales Police Service for three years. At the conclusion of the Royal Commission he started working officially for The Wiggles as their manager, having worked with them in some capacity since their earliest days.

The Wiggles
In 1998, at the request of his brother Anthony, Field became The Wiggles manager. At first, he booked venues at unusual settings throughout Sydney, New South Wales, and eastern Australia, "mainly pre-schools, RSLs and theatres". By 2007, he produced and directed their videos and oversaw their consumer products. As manager of The Wiggles, Anthony Field has said, "I totally trust Paul; he is an honest man".

Field has expressed an appreciation for the development of The Wiggles coming out of the tragedy of his oldest daughter Bernadette's death. "When I think of how much joy [The] Wiggles have brought to children, it's good to know that out of an event so horrifying, something good has come", Field has said. Field has his daughter's name tattooed on his right arm with the expression "Ta Mo Croi Briste"("My heart is broken" in Irish) as well as an image of the Sacred Heart and the epitaph "Joy she gave, Joy she has", and the names of his four other children and his wife on his left arm, something his younger brother Anthony has emulated when he had the names of his three children tattooed on his arms. Paul Field's children have appeared in several of The Wiggles' videos and television programs.

As producer and director, Paul has worked on 12 TV series and 38 videos for The Wiggles, Dorothy the Dinosaur and The Kingdom of Paramithi. These shows combined are broadcast in over 100 countries. Paul has been a judge for the ARIA awards for over 13 years and in 2008 was elected as a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. For two years he has been a judge in the International Emmy Awards.

As a writer, Paul has been accredited as a full member of the Australian Performing Rights Association. He has written for The Wiggles and Dorothy the Dinosaur series, co-created and wrote The Kingdom of Paramithi series and a number of songs for The Wiggles.

For The Wiggles 20th Anniversary, Paul helped produce The Wiggles Exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, seen by over 200,000 people. In the same year, he produced the "Rewiggled" Tribute Album with the ABC in Australia, with such artists as Sarah Blasko, The Living End, Washington and Busby Marou performing Wiggles songs. In what was a busy year indeed, he wrote, produced and directed a documentary about The Wiggles titled, "Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing!". This will broadcast on Foxtel in Australia in December 2012 with some added footage to include the decision of Jeff, Murray and Greg to retire at the end of 2012 after 21 years of performing and creating.

In late 2011, Paul and his brother John released a CD as "The Field Brothers". The title of the album is "1964" as it features a black and white photograph of John and Paul as toddlers in 1964. 1964 has performances with some of Australia's great country artists such as Troy Cassar Daley, Shane Nicholson, Bill Chambers, Dianna Corcoran and Amber Lawrence. They performed at the Country Music Festival in Tamworth as well as some sold out shows in Sydney to promote the release. It reached #9 on the Australian Country Music Chart and included four film clips, one with Dianna Corcoran "We Don't Talk About Love" was a featured clip on CMC.

However, Paul maintains that with Pauline, his wife of 29 years, his best works to date are their children Luke, Bernadette, Clare, Joseph and Dominic Field