This song has been a guilty pleasure for over a decade. It is not a great song - it didn’t make the final. It placed 20th in its semi final and overall 34th that year, so a complete “dud” really. It has poor vocals, bad costumes, amateurish staging and some silly lyrics, but somehow it still appeals to me.
And several years back, I passed on my passion for this song to my grandkids. We were walking in the afternoon and took a shortcut home that took us through the cemetery. I started singing “Vampires are alive” and they enjoyed it so much it is now a family classic. Anytime we pass a cemetery or are just mucking around singing our favourite songs, we often burst into this refrain, LOUDLY of course
“ Vampires are alive, the legends have to survive”.