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
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon apartment, there's no air or earth, and pretty soon it was hard for me to distinguish what was going on in my head and what was going on on the outside." The book took four and a half years and seven revisions to complete. In one memorable sequence in the book, the cowboy drifter (and both men believe, Shed's father), Dellwood Barker, has homosexual anal intercourse with Shed and teaches Shed about the "Wild Moon Man"—an anthropomorphic representation of neotantric sex and expanded orgasm. According to Spanbauer, the idea for the Wild Moon Man came out of his own imagination: