Night People
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Publisher Description
Capturing the music, characters, escapades, and energy of his DJ days, a profound memoir from seven-time Grammy-winning record producer Mark Ronson.
Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past two decades is one man: Mark Ronson. Night People conjures the undeniable magic of the city's bygone nightlife—a time when clubs were diverse, glamorous, and a little lawless, and each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibility. It's about the beauty of what you can create with just two Technics and a mixer, in a golden era before Giuliani, camera phones, and bottle service upended everything. It's also about a teenager finding his way—stalking DJ Stretch Armstrong and biting his mixes, crate-digging in every corner of New York, grinding gig after gig through a decade of incredible music—and finding a community of people who, in their own strange, cracked ways, lived for the night.
Organized around the venues that defined his experience of the downtown scene, Ronson evokes the specific rush of that decade and those spaces—where fashion folks and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5'ers—and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down. A heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Night People is the definitive account of '90s New York nightlife and the making of a musical mastermind.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This charming memoir takes you inside the electric energy of ’90s New York nightlife, both behind the velvet ropes and down the grimy stairs of dank underground hot spots. Mark Ronson grew up wealthy—his stepfather was Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones—but he spent his twenties grinding it out as a rising DJ in Manhattan’s club scene. Ronson doesn’t shy away from his privilege; no one who grew up hanging out with Sean Lennon and Michael Jackson could. But his focus is always on his love for music, especially vintage soul and golden age hip-hop, and his respect for the vibrant, diverse club community that shaped him. We loved Ronson’s honest and self-deprecating storytelling. His vivid descriptions of house parties and legendary clubs like his home base, Life, had us feeling like we were right there on the dance floor. Ronson’s narration, delivered in his trademark mid-Atlantic accent, captures both his wit and his deep affection for this transformative period of his life. Night People is an irresistible trip.
