""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.""
""Everyone [was] kind of shooting past me. And I started to have this realization ... if I want to be in music, I might have to find my own lane," he says."
"I used to be ... dialing the dealer on the way out of the club, and now I'm making an appointment with my acupuncturist online as I'm leaving the club because my back is just so jacked."
Mark Ronson experienced a defining musical moment at age ten when he played Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" at his mother's wedding and felt a profound sense of accomplishment. He pursued music through teenage years but encountered technical limitations as a guitarist, prompting a search for a distinct role. At 18, Ronson began DJing in New York clubs and later transitioned into music production. He reflects on the 1990s club scene in his memoir Night People and has produced and collaborated with major pop artists, while noting technological and lifestyle changes in DJ culture over the decades.
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