Mark Ronson on being a night person

Mark Ronson is in trouble.

Summer in 1998 and New York’s esteemed VIP bar, on the spy on the spy.

Ronson exists for DJ for Funk’s Purple Pipsqueak. It goes well until I get ready to quit the 1979 disco classic until Michael Jackson pulls it off his arm from his arm.

Suddenly, someone is pulling on his arm. This rapper has a rare urgency in his voice while shouting: “No! You can’t play it. Not in front of the Prince!”

Remembering the competition of the star in the 1980s with Jackson, Ronson removes the record from the deck. But that leaves him with a problem.

“On this point, only 20 seconds left [of the previous song]. I take another record, but Tempos doesn’t match and swim the mixture. “

Ronson looks at the VIP area where the Prince went to court on a plush throne.

“And to me, ‘What is this train debris?’

“He was a little humiliation.”

Fortunately, the train wrecks were rare.

Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse winning an Oscar -winning hit, Ronson was one of the most demanding DJs in New York.

At night, an animal had eaten his prey with a vinyl chests, and he entered the black or busta rhymes perfect time AC/DC with AC/DC put your hands on my eyes where my eyes could see.

“I can enter any room and you can almost scan the crowd like a terminator, and I may be like ‘I know what the first three records are’.

This is close to boasting as Ronson took. Like the big Lebowski, talking in a comfortable, almost funny, sleepy drawer.

We meet in the music and video change of Notting Hill-when the shop starts to rif from the shelves where only 50-year-old children started.

“This has changed my life,” says Pete Rock’s dog -eared copy.

“Oh, and here’s the shoop of Salt-n-Peepa… Now, This My song! “

A similar enthusiasm, Ronson’s new memories penetrate Night People, which sees Jay-Z, who focuses on the DJ career of the 1990s, to Mariah Carey for everyone.

“There were very special songs he wanted to hear,” he remembers. “He always had a great R&B record by the Princess to be requested by the Princess I’m Sear.

“Finally, as soon as I saw him, I knew how to play, to save him a trip to the stand.”

When Ronson ended on Black to Black and Bruno Mars long before his achievements with Winehouse, “People were scratching their heads,” he confessed.

“They are right, so do you want to write the time before we know for you? ‘

But he clung to his weapons. The moment is a heartfelt love letter for a past period inspired by the death of his close friend and contemporary DJ Blu Jemz in 2018.

“I was just looking at all records [we used to play] To think about how each one is so stimulating for a moment and for a moment.

“Controversially, New York was the summit of Hip-Hop both creatively and commercially-Quest, Wu-tang, Biggie Smalls, Lil ‘Kim, Busta Rhymes … All. All. And they were out in clubs every night.”

Another figure that appeared on the stage was PDiddy, Sean Combs, who was waiting to punish in New York after being found guilty of two transportation for prostitution.

Diddy took Ronson one of his big breaks and hired him to play the A list, including the 29th birthday party, and overturned the DJ with a $ 100 invoice containing his phone number.

Ronson, who describes the accusations against Diddy as “terrible”, says, “The way I get me for certain concerts is incredible to raise my star.”

In New York, the musician “used a tremendous amount of power and cassette”, “I had no idea about something like this,” he says.

“But in five years I dj’m dj’m, I doubt that he talked to me more than five sentences.

“Mostly dancing there, and I knew whether he was dancing, nobody would shout to me.”

Initially, Ronson asked his book to capture the seeds of the 90s club culture, where “the night,” Cokhead Club owners shouted me because I did not play Madonna “.

As he wrote, another story appeared.

Ronson was born in London to jewelery designer Ann Dexter-Jones and music publisher Laurence Ronson. The houses in St John’s Wood have frequently visited for actors and musicians, including Keith Moon and Robin Williams.

“My family always had crazy parties,” he remembers. “Fifty or 60 slightly cracked people, smoking, drinking, having a great time.”

The post was very different. In the book, he writes “angry nursery and heavy silences” from his parents’ bedroom, and this instilled a constant attention that became instinctive before understanding the reason. “

In the future of life, Djing fulfilled a “control need” caused by this early instability.

“It wasn’t always the biggest way to grow for a child, and there was something incredibly relaxing about the DJ cabin.

“It’s like an army. I’m making all the rules. In a way, a shelter.”

Learning to wander in sensitive situations also helped Ronson’s career as a producer.

Lady Gaga’s five feet two documentaries have a very perfect example, starring Star Ronson’s car for a registration session.

Mortified enters a foamy apology to the studio. Ronson extends his arms for a conciliatory embrace.

“If you have a problem, I wish you could tell my face instead of my buffer,” he explains.

The situation is immediately affected.

He reminded the scene, “I remember working on this record [2016’s Joanne] It is quite good and Lady Gaga is one of the most chased, paparazzed people who are probably chased, probably chased.

“Sometimes we hit the door and there would be 20 people taking pictures on the other side. So my role is just to close the outside world [and] Make the artist feel comfortable and comfortable.

“Even when they throw your car in the trash.”

His ineffectiveness helped Winehouse back to Black and focused on a foster creative line.

“Some of my friends ‘Oh, you work with amy? Good luck. I remember saying this album for three years’.

“But when we entered the studio, it was a source of inspiration. We demo three or four songs, we wrote back to Black, we wrote rehabilitation … All this in five days. These amazing memories.”

Other songs lasted longer. Uptown Funk needed seven months. Prayer Lipa’s Barbie Anthem dance was rewritten at night “five or six times with different hooks”.

But these are stories for another time … And maybe a second volume of Ronson’s memories.

But now, I lost it to the vinyl boxes of the record store, the old favorites of the stone roses, the brand new Heavivies and Cypress Hill – and I have created a moment of inner.

“There are people who spend a night out, and then there are people at night,” he decides.

“I was absolutely second … But I had no idea where to take me.”