Sentence examples for defining hit from inspiring English sources

His later band the Voidoids had a defining hit with Mr. Hell's song "Blank Generation".

Somerville appears on the glorious "I Can Change", via a sample of his former band's defining hit, "Smalltown Boy".

Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (Interscope) In most other years, Lady Gaga's second full-length album would gave been a defining hit.

Did he find it ironic that his defining hit was about promising never to let people down or desert them, and that's exactly what he did?

And I also said that Clarkson did this without realising it, because I've never been convinced that the former American Idol winner has ever understood what made her or her defining hit so good.

This bill of oldies singers from the early 1960's is suffused with vocal drama and connections to Phil Spector, who produced Gene Pitney's defining hit, "Town Without Pity," and drew on him as a songwriter for the Crystals' "He's a Rebel".

Mr. Davis handpicked many of the songs that became Mr. Manilow's defining hits.

She revisits these defining hits in an exhilarating opening blitz she describes as "the history of Mary J Blige".

Meanwhile, singer-songwriters like Sting and Billy Joel, to whom Mr. Manilow, 56, compares himself, have seen their defining hits stay in rotation on classic rock stations.

Still, it continued to deliver some defining hits, including serial big musicals with the likes of Frank Sinatra, and Ben Hur (a remake, in fact) with Charlton Heston.

To keep spending them on rehabbing the shows that defined other eras is just keeping this era from having its own defining hits or keeping us from fully appreciating the ones that we already have.