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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Music producer and DJ Mark Ronson's new memoir, Night People, takes us back to a New York

that no longer exists, before Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crackdown on nightlife, before camera

phones and bottle service transform the culture forever. It's the story of how a young outsider with a

British accent found his place in the 1990s club scene, learning how to read crowds, dig through

crates, and create the perfect mix of venues where the city's tribes collided. Rappers and models

and skaters and socialites, Everyone glamorous, and as Ronson

describes them, a little lawless. Night people, as he defines them, are different than people

who simply enjoy a night out. They become their best selves once the sun goes down,

and daytime is just the warm-up. These formative years spinning records

would shape everything that came after. Ronson is a nine-time Grammy Award winner, producing

career-defining albums for Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga. He's also behind hits like Uptown

Funk with Bruno Mars, shallow, from a Star is Born, and the Barbie soundtrack.

But Night People takes us to Ronson's beginning, DJing in 90s New York and rubbing shoulders

with artists that would go on to become hip-hop and R&V legends, like Biggie Smalls, Timbalin and

Missy Elliott, J-Z, Puff Daddy, and Alia.

Mark Ronson, welcome back to Fresh Air.

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