# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shire
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:38:28.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shire"
name: "David Shire"
slug: "david-shire"
description: "David Lee Shire is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. Among his best known works are the motion picture soundtracks to The Big Bus, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Conversation, All the President's Men, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as \"Manhattan Skyline\". His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn."
tagline: "American songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Shire05.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.31
  momentum:             5.642631128040117
  historical:           14.363184
  currentAttention:     17.36349097555404
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006288/"
    handle:    "nm0006288"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://davidshiremusic.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديفيد شاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید شایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DA%A4%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "دەیڤد شایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید شایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2"
    title: "デヴィッド・シャイア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shire"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ڈیوڈ شائر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b2283bca-ced1-4856-9cc6-a94b271062f5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8422"
    title: "David Shire"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump