I'm Alive (Electric Light Orchestra song)

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“I'm Alive”
Single by Electric Light Orchestra from the album Xanadu
B-side	"Drum Dreams"
Released	May 1980
Format	7"
Recorded	1980 Musicland Studios Munich
Genre	Pop Rock
Length	3:45
Label	Jet Records
Producer	Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"Confusion" "Last Train To London" "I'm Alive" (1980) "Xanadu" (1980)

I'm Alive is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra, released as a single in May 1980. It is featured in the feature film Xanadu (in its opening sequence). The song also appears on the soundtrack album Xanadu. The song is heard as the Muses emerge from a graffiti-like portrait; Olivia Newton John, playing Kira, emerges last. The song has been recently updated in the version of Xanadu on Broadway.

Included in the song's closing coda is Morse code which spells out "ELO."

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