When I was little and growing up in the Balkans (5 or 6yo) we had a TV and a VHS, but only 3 standard channels that didn’t show music videos. We had a lot of bootleg music CDs that my neighbour would get us - blank CDs, wrapped in paper, no case, no album art, nothing.

“There’s this song; it’s sung by vampires.”

Even without having seen Earth, Wind & Fire until much much later when we finally got more channels (including VH1), those vampires in my imagination were still Black.

After all, the only cool and fun vampires I’d seen on TV by that point were Black - Eddie Murphy in “Vampire in Brooklyn” and Wesley Snipes in “Blade”.

Btw, I lived a couple of hours away by car from Dracula’s castle. And we have tons of vampire lore in my country (we’re neighbors to Romania). I still have no clue what this fascination and absolute certainty was that Earth, Wind and Fire were just some cool vampires dropping absolute bangers.