B-side "Drum Dreams" Genre Pop rock | Format 7" single Length 3:45 | |
Released May 24, 1980 (UK)
May 1980 (US) Recorded 1980, Musicland Studios, Munich | ||
"I'm Alive" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released as a single in May 1980. It is featured in a sequence near the beginning of the feature film Xanadu. The song also appears on the soundtrack album Xanadu.
In the film the song is heard as the Muses emerge from a graffiti-like portrait; Olivia Newton-John, playing Kira (Terpsichore), emerges last. The film's version of the song contains a fairly lengthy instrumental introduction, a small segment of which is used for the album version.
The song has been recently covered in the version of Xanadu on Broadway.
Included in the song's closing coda is Morse code which spells out "E.L.O."; they did something similar to this on two of their other songs, "Ocean Breakup" from 1973's On the Third Day and 1983's "Secret Messages".