'I can't stop DJing,' Mark Ronson says — never mind the back pain
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Grammy and Oscar-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing compares to the rush he feels when he puts on a song that transforms the room. Ronson was 10 years old, and celebrating the wedding of his mother and his stepfather, when he first felt it.
It was a small wedding, in the garden of a summer rental, and the music had stalled. Ronson's new stepfather, Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones suggested that Ronson — a self-described "kid obsessed with music" — find a song to put on. He chose Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight."
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"And I remember standing inside the house looking through the window as my stepdad pulls my mom in for a slow dance," Ronson says. "And I just stood there watching the scene, slightly drunk off this feeling of like, 'Oh my God, this is my music playing out there.' But also it was ... like the first time in my life I genuinely have a memory of having done something right."
Ronson spent his teenage years yearning to be a musician.
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