[4] He subsequently wrote articles about all aspects of popular culture and music for RAM, Billboard, Roadrunner and a range of national and international magazines and newspapers.
As a keyboard player for seminal post-punk band, Surfside 6,[6] he wrote the B-side, "School's Out", to their 1980 hit single, "Cool in the Tube".
[7] The following year he started, in partnership with Lesa Belle Furhagen, the publishing company Terraplane Press/Terraplanet[7] and was editorial director of the magazines Juice, HQ, Monument, Big Hit and Australian Style.
[6] Creswell co-authored, with Martin Fabinyi, his first book in 1986, Too Much Ain't Enough, which is a biography of Jimmy Barnes, former lead vocalist for pub rock band Cold Chisel.
[11] His book, 1001 Songs, is used by Brian Nankervis, creator, producer and adjudicator of the SBS program RocKwiz, as a source of information for questions.