Toby Creswell

Toby Creswell (born 21 May 1955) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer. He was editor of Rolling Stone (Australia) and a founding editor of Juice.

In 1986, he co-wrote, his first book, Too Much Ain't Enough a biography of pub rocker and former Cold Chisel vocalist Jimmy Barnes. He also co-wrote with Martin Fabinyi The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock & Roll, 1957-Now (1999) and 1001 Australians You Should Know (2006). The latter was written with his domestic partner, fellow writer and journalist, Samantha Trenoweth.

Biography Creswell wrote his first article on rock & roll for Nation Review in 1972. 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. He continued to edit Rolling Stone until September 1992. He was also the producer of The National Karaoke Challenge.

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.

In 2012, Creswell was executive producer of Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, a documentary about Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly.