David West (2)

b. 25 January 1919 in Plaistow, Essex (now Greater London), England. d. 1 December 2004 in Rustington, West Sussex, England. British record producer in the 1950s and 1960s, songwriter and record executive. Newell was particularly known for his recorded productions of West End musicals. Newell was the head of EMI's Columbia label for many of the label's most successful years. He used this alias as songwriter and lyricist.