Stereophonics' debut album Word Gets Around was released in August 1997 and instantly charted at number six in the UK aided by the singles Local Boy in the Photograph More Life in a Tramps Vest and A Thousand Trees. The band reached mainstream success with the release of Performance and Cocktails and its promotional singles The Bartender and the Thief Just Looking and Pick a Part That's New in 1999 and have achieved a total of ten top-ten singles as well as one number-one: 2005's “Dakota. T..
