Artist · chart history
Tim Curry
Solo artist Warrington United Kingdom English actor and singer
Tim Curry is an artist from Warrington. Tim Curry has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Do the Rock”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #115. The station that charted Tim Curry most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 2 appearances.
Tim Curry, born in Warrington, England, in 1946, is best known for strutting across stage and screen as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, after cutting his teeth in the West End run of Hair. But the man who made Frank-N-Furter sing had rock records of his own in him too, and between 1978 and 1981 he made 3 albums: Read My Lips, Fearless and Simplicity.
Fearless, from 1979, is the one rock radio latched onto, and "I Do the Rock" is its wicked little centerpiece: a sly, talky strut delivered over a slinky groove, like a cabaret emcee who's wandered into a new wave club. Fearless and Simplicity both made the Billboard 200.
Acting pulled him back soon enough, and it never really let go: Broadway turns in Amadeus, My Favorite Year and Spamalot that each earned a Tony nomination, Wadsworth in Clue, Pennywise in It, Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, and a Daytime Emmy for voicing Captain Hook. He published a memoir, Vagabond, in 2025 and died in August 2026, a performer who could make camp and menace sound like the same thing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Tim Curry on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Do the Rock | 4 | #115 | – | – | |
| 2 | I Do the Roq | 1 | #500 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 507 | I Do the Rock | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) |
| 2002 | 934 | I Do the Rock | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) |
| 1999 | 1950 | I Do the Rock | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1996 | 500 | I Do the Roq | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) |
| 1988 | 115 | I Do the Rock | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) |
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