Night People

Brought to you by Penguin.Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack-Mark Ronson's musical fingerprints are everywhere in our pop culture. Now comes his electrifying memoir, which captures the music, characters, escapades, and raw emotional journey of his DJ days in '90s New York.Mark Ronson was born a night person. With hedonistic creatives for parents, parties became his playground. Yet, having moved to New York City from London at a young age, he always felt like a bit of an outsider, until discovering himself in the pulsing, unifying joy of the city's parties and hip-hop scene. Each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibilities. Having well and truly caught the DJing bug, he worked to find his place and make his name in the city that never sleeps.Night People conjures the undeniable magic of '90s New York. It evokes the rush of a time and place where fashionistas and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5'ers - and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down. A heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Night People is the definitive account of a cultural moment and the making of a musical mastermind.'His storytelling is vivid, humorous, and refreshingly honest' DUA LIPA'A heartfelt love letter to a bygone era' BBC'Ronson's book is a remarkable achievement in the deft ways it captures and intertwines Ronson's own emergence, in all its conflicting fragility and cockiness, neurosis and steely ambition, with the times that surrounded him; all that reading wasn't wasted.' CHRIS HEATH, GQ(c) Mark Ronson 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025