Night People

"In Night People, Mark Ronson tells his own sweet, intimate, and sometimes extremely funny story of what it’s like to be inside an era of pure musical magic before anyone but you and your friends even know it’s happening. His is a perfect New York tale — the kind that makes you jealous you weren’t there, grateful for your own version, and racing to make a playlist so you can visit this world anytime you want. It’s also about the power of obsession with the thing you love, and how it can drive you to find your people, the ones who will eventually introduce you to yourself.” 
 —Lizzie Goodman, author of the New York Times bestseller Meet Me in the Bathroom

"Night People is not just Mark Ronson’s origin story. It’s a snapshot of 1990s New York City from a figure at the epicenter of its culture. It’s a book about the life of a DJ, by a DJ, in the same groundbreaking way that Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential illuminated the life of a chef. And it’s also a lovely, sweet story about a small family and a tight community, even though you may know these people’s names well. This quadruple blend is not surprising: It comes from pop music’s master synthesist.” 
 —Dan Charnas, author of the PEN Award-winning, New York Times Bestseller Dilla Time, and The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

“Mark Ronson’s transporting memoir is a New York bildungsroman about an uptown kid with a downtown heart that beats to hip hop while longing for a sound that’s all his own. Night People reads like a playlist of life's hard knocks and small triumphs that somehow flows effortlessly on the page, not unlike his talent as a DJ to mix songs that kept the crowd shaking on the dance floor.” 
 —Griffin Dunne, author of the New York Times bestseller The Friday Afternoon Club

“In Night People, Mark Ronson goes time-traveling through his life and returns with a wry, sharp, moving, evocatively detailed story of discovery, and self-discovery, and of how it feels to fall head-over-heels in love with pop music.”
 —Michael Chabon

"Thoroughly charming...An endearing memoir from a musician who’s more than just Mark."
 —Kirkus Reviews

"A wondrous snapshot of a bygone New York."—Publishers Weekly

“Mark Ronson slams us into his early years—no-name kid, hustling with vinyls, big noise—then drags us through the sweat, smoke, and  pulsing floors of the cultures that raised him. It’s all velocity and volume, rattling the bones until you crawl out the other side wrecked, wired, and itching to do it all over again.” 

"Mark’s book is one of the best evocations I have read of how it actually feels to live a life in and around music. The passion behind the writing leaps off the page and this book is the first thing I’ve come across that comes close to conveying the rush of playing exactly the right record at the right time. Wonderful."