Murray Cook oral history interview and photograph by Louise Darmody, 29 June 2018

fonds

29 June 2018

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9611766

1 audio file (89 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
1 photograph - digital, JPEG, colour

Murray James Cook, AM (born 30 June 1960 in Cowra, NSW) is an Australian musician and actor. He is one of the founding members of the children's band The Wiggles and is known as the Red Wiggle.

Cook played the guitar in the late 1980s bands The Transistors and Finger Guns before joining the Sydney-based band Bang Shang a Lang. He studied early childhood education at Macquarie University, where he met Anthony Field and Greg Page and formed The Wiggles in 1991. Cook worked as a preschool teacher for two years before the success of The Wiggles forced him to quit.

On 26 January 2010 Cook was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the arts, particularly children's entertainment, and to the community as a benefactor and supporter of a range of charities.

Cook retired from the Wiggles at the end of 2012, and in 2013, became the group's tour manager. Cook is a guitarist and co-songwriter of rock 'n' roll / rhythm 'n' blues / soul band The Soul Movers and remains musically active, playing in a variety of bands in Sydney.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

ITEM 1
Murray Cook interview by Louise Darmody, 29 June 2018

ITEM 2
Photograph of Murray Cook, 29 June 2018 / by Louise Darmody

Acquired in digital format. Access copy available online