Blues legend Joe Bonamassa has paid tribute to actor Tim Curry, who died earlier this week on the age of 80.

Curry is well-remembered for his roles as Pennywise the Clown within the unique IT film, in addition to in The Rocky Horror Image Present, Clue, and Dwelling Alone 2: Misplaced in New York. Bonamassa posted a tribute to Curry on Instagram yesterday (August 26).

He wrote: “Relaxation in Peace Tim Curry. Many have no idea that Tim lower the unique model of Sloe Gin on his debut album Learn my Lips in 1978. The track was composed by Bob Ezrin and Michael Kamen.

“20 years in the past Kevin Shirley rang me and mentioned he discovered the right determined blues track for me. He was proper and our model modified my profession trajectory eternally. Tim’s model was daring, lovely and featured the mastery of Dick Wagner on guitar.”

Alongside the written tribute is a video of Bonamassa performing Sloe Gin. The track stays one in every of Bonamassa’s greatest hits up to now. He as soon as instructed Whole Guitar: “That track initially got here to me through [producer] Kevin Shirley who was born in South Africa. It was successful there however nowhere else.

“I’ve to offer a particular shout out to Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner who performed on the unique model. They have been principally Bob Ezrin’s ringers… What you hear on the report and the way we play it dwell are two various things. That track’s received a lifetime of its personal. I’m thrilled with that… typically we simply need to play it!”

Curry’s 1978 launch included not solely the Ezrin and Kamen observe but in addition featured covers of labor by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Roy Wooden, and Joni Mitchell.