{"id":2100273,"date":"2026-08-19T04:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2100273"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:53:24","slug":"tears-for-fears-curt-smith-puts-hand-up-for-english-soccer-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2100273","title":{"rendered":"Tears For Fears\u2019 Curt Smith Puts Hand Up For English Soccer Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tNot everybody wants to rule the world. Curt Smith would be happy with a stake in his beloved soccer team, Bath City FC.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe singer, songwriter and co-founder of Tears For Fears has contributed to a 50-strong investor group that is angling to buy the team, which currently plays in the Southern League Premier Division South.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe club\u2019s board and supporters\u2019 society have recommended the sale for about \u00a36 million ($8.1 million), which should plug much-needed investment into the club.<\/p>\n
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\n\tSmith is now based in the United States but grew up in Bath, an historic town in Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths and for its short distance to several British icons, including Stonehenge, and the Eavis\u2019 Worthy Farm in Pilton, the site of Glastonbury Festival.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHere in Twerton, where I spent most of my youth, it is slightly under-served,\u201d Smith tells the BBC. \u201cFor me it\u2019s exciting we can do something for the community around here,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe investor group is led by Andrew Stalbow, co-founder and CEO of a mobile entertainment company. Should the deal be approved and completed, Stalbow would become the club\u2019s chairman.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf I can lend my name and make people a bit more comfortable in investing and coming to the club, then I\u2019ll do that,\u201d Smith added. \u201cAt times you have to give back and this time I\u2019m giving back to my home town.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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\n\tSmith, should the deal progress, would join a long list of musicians with British soccer connections. Elton John served as chairman and director of Watford FC, reporting pumping millions into the club from 1976 until 2002.<\/p>\n
\n\tJohn\u2019s \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d collaborator Ed Sheeran bought a 1% stake in his hometown team, Ipswich Town, and sponsors the club\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s team shirt jerseys. Snoop Dogg is an investor and minority shareholder in Welsh team Swansea City, while fellow hip-hop artist Stormzy is a part owner in AFC Croydon Athletic.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) supported his hometown Brighton & Hove Albion FC through tough times in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during which time his Brighton-based record label Skint Records serving as the team\u2019s kit sponsor.<\/p>\n
\n\tFew celebrities have turned around the fortunes of a club, and done with so many followers watching the process, quite like Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have managed with Wrexham A.F.C., which has enjoyed three consecutive promotions, all of it captured for the series Welcome to Wrexham.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\tAway from the pitch, Smith and his bandmate Roland Orzabal ruled the charts and the airwaves in the mid-to-late 1980s as Tears For Fears, a stretch that included two No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with \u201cEverybody Wants To Rule The World\u201d and \u201cShout,\u201d both of which appeared on the double album Songs From The Big Chair<\/em>, which sat atop the Billboard 200 for five weeks.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe duo\u2019s last TFF studio album, The Tipping Point,<\/em>\u00a0came out in 2022, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and hitting No. 1 on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Top Album Sales and Top Alternative Albums charts.<\/p>\n\n
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