“A Thousand Trees” by Stereophonics

"A Thousand Trees" was the third single from Word Gets Around, the 1997 debut from Welsh rockers Stereophonics, and V2 put it out on 11 August 1997, between "More Life in a Tramps Vest" and "Traffic". Kelly Jones wrote the words and shares the music with bassist Richard Jones and drummer Stuart Cable, and the credits keep it to the three of them, with Kelly on guitar and lead vocal.

Its subject is darker than a single usually dares. Kelly Jones has said it's about a football coach who did untoward things with younger kids and saw his reputation burned to the ground, and in a 2017 NME interview he described it as a song about rumours in a tiny community crushing someone's name. On the UK Singles Chart, it peaked at number 22.

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