Ronson Seal Of Approval
Not content with helping Amy Winehouse to become a global superstar, Mark Ronson has conjoured up his own million-selling album.
Stuart Clark, 26 Sep 2007
It’s 4.30 in the afternoon and Mark Ronson is still wearing last night’s hangover like a t-shirt.
"I played yesterday in Belfast with The Killers and Kasabian – being a rock bill I wasn’t sure what reception we’d get, but the kids were really into it,” says Mark Ronson in the same posh English/American hybrid accent as Kelly Osbourne. “Afterwards I deejayed in this club called the Stiff Kitten, which was absolutely insane. I was supposed to finish at 1.30, but kept playing ‘til virtually when the cleaners came in. It was really cool talking to some girls afterwards and hearing that it’s the first year in living memory that there’s been no rioting on July 12th. You get that same thing in Tel Aviv where people absolutely lose it ‘cause you’re living under so much tension and pressure.”
For those of you who aren’t au fait with the intricacies of the 32-year-old’s upbringing, here’s the potted biog: born in London to socialite mother Ann Dexter-Jones and property tycoon father Laurence Ronson, he moved aged eight to New York where his parents were pillars of the local Jewish community. After acquiring Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones as a stepdad, Mark combined studying at NYU with DJ spots in Manhattan’s choicest hip-hop joints. He also added a few zeroes to his bank account by jocking at celebrity parties for the likes of Tom Cruise, P. Diddy, Prince and Martha Stewart, modelling and producing Nikka Costa’s Everybody Got Their Something. Snapped up in 2003 by Elektra Records, he’s subsequently worked with or remixed such A-Listers as Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams, Jay-Z, Outkast, Jack White, Lily Allen and Bob Dylan who after steadfastly refusing to let anyone near his back catalogue this year allowed Ronson to soup up ‘Most Likely You’ll Go Your Own Way (And I’ll Go Mine)’.
How the fuck do you set about remixing Bob Dylan?
“I must be going through life blissfully oblivious to shit, because it wasn’t as huge a deal to me as it was to other people,” he reflects. “My attitude is ‘How can I have fun with this?’ not, ‘Oh dear, what if there’s a backlash?’”
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