Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album) 8 on the Hot 100. The album's songs also proved popular among other recording artists, with "Mother's Little Helper", "Take It or Leave It", "Under My Thumb" and "Lady Jane" all being covered within a month of its release. Adding to Jagger and Richards' success as writers, Chris Farlowe topped the UK charts with his Jagger-produced recording of "Out of Time" in August 1966. On 9 August, "Aftermath" received gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America; it was certified platinum in 1989 for sales of one million copies. The Rolling Stones' new sound on the album helped attract
Music of the United Kingdom (1970s) outfit from West London, who dropped their punk rock image and jumped on the band wagon, topping the UK charts in the summer of 1979 with the single "Are Friends Electric?". This prompted the singer, Gary Numan to go solo and in the same year he release the Kraftwerk inspired album, "The Pleasure Principle" and again topped the charts for the second time with the single "Cars". Particularly through its adoption by New Romantics, synthesisers came to dominate the pop and rock music of the early 80s. Albums such as Visage's "Visage" (1980), John Foxx's "Metamatic" (1980), Gary Numan's "Telekon"