{"id":941874,"date":"2026-05-06T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:13:17","slug":"album-cover-fails-a-misspelled-melanie-c-and-other-mistakes-that-caused-a-stir-melanie-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941874\/","title":{"rendered":"Album cover fails! A misspelled Melanie C \u2013 and other mistakes that caused a stir | Melanie C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name: <\/strong>Melanie C, christened Melanie Chisholm, who is also known as Mel C and Sporty Spice \u2026<\/p>\n

Age: <\/strong>She\u2019s 52.<\/p>\n

Where did all that time go?<\/strong> Yes, it truly does fly. Melanine C, on the other hand, is brand new.<\/p>\n

Melanine C? Sounds like a health supplement \u2013 protection against UV radiation <\/strong>and<\/strong> scurvy, maybe? <\/strong>Actually it refers to the same person, Melanie C.<\/p>\n

She spells her name in two ways, sometimes slips a cheeky \u2018n\u2019 in? <\/strong>Not so much her.<\/p>\n

Who then? What\u2019s this about?<\/strong> So she\u2019s got a new album out.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen the adverts, everywhere.<\/strong> Sweat by Melanie C on the front cover. But on the spine of the vinyl release \u2026<\/p>\n

No! Melanine <\/strong>C?<\/strong> Afraid so.<\/p>\n

Who spotted it?<\/strong> Melbourne-based Brad Bellman, who posted a TikTok<\/a> showing the spelling mistake, saying: \u201cSo I think someone\u2019s getting fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mel C\u2019s album Sweat. Photograph: Red Girl Records\/PA<\/p>\n

Do we know how many are like this?<\/strong> No, but Andrew Isaac from the UK commented: \u201cIt\u2019s on all five of my vinyl variants \ud83e\udd23\u201d.<\/p>\n

Five! He\u2019s <\/strong>a Mel superfan.<\/strong> Or maybe he thinks the typo will make it more valuable one day. Some of the replies have suggested that.<\/p>\n

Has anything like this <\/strong>happened before?<\/strong> As it happens, yes. My favourite is Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood\u2019s Electric Light Orchestra 1972 album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go on. <\/strong>So someone at United Artists, failing to get through to the ELO contact on the phone to check the name of the album, wrote No Answer in their notes. And that\u2019s what got printed on the record.<\/p>\n

What should it have been called?<\/strong> The Electric Light Orchestra, it being the band\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n

Ha! More please!<\/strong> Well, there\u2019s the Zombies\u2019 1968 release, Odessey & Oracle.<\/p>\n

Ouch! Wh<\/strong>at happened?<\/strong> Well, for ages they tried to claim it was intentionally idiosyncratic, before Terry Quirk, the illustrator who did the cover art, finally admitted he got it wrong<\/a>. Thought he knew how to spell odyssey, didn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n

I guess spellchecks <\/strong>weren\u2019t widely available then<\/strong>. More recently, there<\/strong> is Oasis\u2019s Standing <\/strong>on <\/strong>the Shoulder of Giants.<\/strong> But is that a spelling mistake or misquotation? Or just the Gallaghers being the Gallaghers? I quite like the idea of several giants with one shoulder to be fair.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just album covers<\/strong>, band names can be misspelled too. <\/strong>Yes, Led Zeppelin did it on purpose<\/a> so that people wouldn\u2019t pronounce it like the thing between you and your dog.<\/p>\n

Unconditional love?<\/strong> Lead! Also intentional: Def Leppard, The Monkees, and Limp Bizkit.<\/p>\n

Do <\/strong>say:<\/strong> \u201cTotally intentional, Sweat is Melanie\u2019s ninth studio album. Hence Melanine, see?\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t say:<\/strong> \u201cBit rich laughing at typos, the Guardian<\/a> \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n