They were no longer dependent on outside songwriters to provide them with hits.

Numerous outside songwriters and session musicians were employed for the writing and recording of the four new songs on Killers.

Adam Mitchell, another outside songwriter, was brought in by producer Michael James Jackson.

This album unlike most of Anderson's works in that he invited outside songwriters to write for him, rather than creating an album wholly of his own material.

They encouraged the group to seek outside songwriters, preferably ones who could help them deliver hit singles.

They brought in outside songwriters to develop their next album, the hit "Permanent Vacation," and later produced a series of popular high-concept videos.

As its members wrote just a handful of songs on the albums, most songs Three Dog Night recorded were written by outside songwriters.

Demand for outside songwriters soared with the rise of pop divas like Whitney Houston.

"Here's a singer who doesn't write her own material, who is completely reliant on outside songwriters."

A second condition was then placed on them and that was to have outside songwriters to work with the band members.