[x] Spelling mistakes on original releases

The first release of Lulu's "Shout" was by "Lulu and the Luvvers" (allowing said lady entry into the db, bless 'em).

However, the label mis-spelled "Luvvers" as "Luvers".

Some later re-releases of this single did credit the band as "Luvvers", and "Luvvers" is what they were generally known as throughout their career.

So what do we do here - as the only vinyl release evidence we have is of them as "luvers" do we go with that as the band name, or do we say "obviously a mistake" and alias them as "Lulu And The Luvvers||Lulu And The Luvers" appropriately? My view is that the latter is the way we "ought" to go. Fuzzy-searching notwithstanding, we *ought* to be able to allow someone searching for "Lulu and the Luvvers" to go straight to that entry.

I believe we should have strict liability rules- if the release is a legitimate (ie non-bootleg) record - I would not wish to second guess the original release. In any why do you say it is 'obviously a msitake' - is there something else that proves an error? If it is an error -it's one they made frequently (see ev)

bah. I'm not doing very well this weekend ... The websites detailing this bit of history refers consistently to them as "luvvers" and the re-releases tend to have them as "luvvers" but if the original singles had "luvers" throughout, then fair enough "luvers" it is. Steady as she goes, Mr Sulu ...

I think you two are right about this. It looks like "Luvers" is the original and proper way to go.

For the "Luvvers" reissue, it's hard to figure out what's going on. Is it a typo or is it a (non-trivial) change in band name? Given the ambiguity, I see it as a typo, but I haven't researched this thoroughly.

To avoid creating new / false entries, I think that we should alias typos in band names (as we we do with typos in band member credits) instead of treating them as new band names.