At the end of June 2017 he left Fairfax Media to become a freelance journalist and also taught music journalism.
[1][2] In the late 1960s, with his family, father Cyril, mother Irlande and two younger siblings, he relocated to Australia and settled in Sydney.
He worked there for a few years before starting at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1992, where he became the senior music writer and reviewer.
[4][5] Zuel regularly talks music on ABC local radio and appears on The Right Note.
After 25 years at The Sydney Morning Herald, he left in June 2017 to become a freelance journalist at his website and to teach music journalism.