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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Mark Ronson

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mark Ronson is the man behind many of the hit songs you hear on the radio, like Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” and Lady Gaga’s “Shallow.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the Grammy Award-winning producer about the art of making those hits from the ground up, his latest solo album, and what it’s like to work with some of the biggest names in the music industry.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.0

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:08.7

I've got a great one for you this week.

0:10.6

My guest is 7-time Grammy winner and now Academy Award winner and Golden Globe winner

0:16.0

and a bunch of other award winner, Mark Ronson.

0:20.0

He is the famed DJ and producer behind so much of the music you hear on the radio.

0:25.8

He got his big breakthrough working with Amy Winehouse 12 years ago on her seminal album

0:31.9

Back to Black that won a bunch of Grammys.

0:34.2

He partnered up with her.

0:35.6

He has since worked with Adele.

0:38.0

He is the man behind Uptown Funk, the monster hit that was number one for 14 weeks with Bruno

0:43.4

Mars a few years back.

0:45.4

And he is the man behind Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's song, Shallow, from the movie A Star

0:51.4

Is Born, which is where he won his Oscar alongside Lady Gaga.

0:55.6

Fascinating guy, Born in London, raised in New York City.

0:59.5

His stepfather is Mick Jones, the guitarist from Forerunner.

1:03.4

So he sort of grew up in this universe of musicians.

1:06.7

His mother was a well-known woman around New York City.

1:10.4

Big parties in their apartment that a young Mark Ronson would wake up to.

1:13.8

He talks about that Mick Jagger walking through the house.

1:16.8

Robin Williams was another named Bruce Springsteen just a crazy upbringing and then got into

1:21.8

DJing.

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