Mr. Williams wrote the band's first hit, "Machine Gun".
"They're just a goofy left-wing hit machine," Mr. Caplis said of the watchdog group.
The right combination, of course, would capture the best of both worlds, cushioning a hit machine with a safety net.
Rather than being crushed by Disney, as many feared, Pixar has reinvigorated its parent company.But hit machines can run out of steam.
Age: 46 Industry: broadcasting 2005 ranking: 25 Abbott is a one-man hit machine, with credits including Shameless, State of Play and Clocking Off.
The song's verses used an electronic filter on Cher's vocal, turning her into cyber-Cher, a hit machine immune to sagging flesh.
January's much-delayed Anti album saw Rihanna – modern pop's most prolific hit machine – turn her back on the bangers.
By Adam Gopnik In an age when the musical was no longer a hit machine, Lloyd Webber returned the form to its origins in operetta.
Then there's the olfactory whomp of the place — toasty, spicy, cedar-inflected — that brings a whiff of Ms. Sagar's hit machine, the home store known as Zona.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the pair were a hit machine: "Your Song," "Rocket Man," "Daniel," "Crocodile Rock," "Bennie and the Jets," "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," "Candle in the Wind".
With a series of sophisticated, eclectic and expensively made records, he always seems on the path to becoming a true international star, but sometimes his universalist ambitions outstrip the realities of the pop hit machine.
