[mb-users] RE: Re: Legal names and performance names

[drsaunde]

joan WHITTAKER wrote:
> 
> You must always use the name on the cover.  
> 

While I might agree with that statement for original releases, released with
the artist's input, there is a distintion that needs to be made for reissue
and compilations titled for marketing reasons.  Releases have been issued
under the following names:
Van Morrison & Them
Eric Clapton & the Yardbirds
Rod Stewart & the Faces

There are many more examples, but even though releases have been titled
under these "artists" they are not actually artists, they are marketing
creations used to highlight a member of a group who ended up being more
famous than the group.  These are bogus artists and should never be used.
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