Was (Not Was)

Following on from previous weeks, ie. songs heard off Top of the Pops: one piece particularly struck me and that was Spy in the House of love, by Was (Not Was), an American band of the mid 1980's, early 1990's. However, trying to check it out online I was confused by the coincidence of their being a (very good ) British band, around the same time, called House of Love...