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Coffee Break: Vampires

The 1922 German horror film, "Nosferatu," is based on Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula." Here, the vampire Count Orlok is destroyed by sunlight.
The 1922 German horror film, "Nosferatu," is based on Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula." Here, the vampire Count Orlok is destroyed by sunlight.Hulton Archive | Getty Images

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by Anna Weggel

October 02, 2019

Today in 1983, Bonnie Tyler was at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" - a song that was originally written to be a vampire love song in a Nosferatu musical.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that are inspired by vampires?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Neil Young - Vampire Blues
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre Of Time and Memory
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead