David Shire

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David Lee Shire is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the soundtrack for Francis Coppola's 1974 The Conversation, the soundtrack for Alan J. Pakula's 1976 All the President's Men (film), and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. Shire also served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army.