10 Things You SHOULD Know About Mark Ronson

From Harp Magazine:

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mark Ronson

By Jose Martinez

Born in the U.K. but raised in the States, producer/DJ/label owner Mark Ronson grew up to be a dirty white boy who plays his own funky music and helps craft other artists’ jams (see: Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen). Ronson’s Version (on his Allido Records via RCA) is a groovy collection of reworked favorites with Allen singing Kaiser Chiefs, Winehouse taking on the Zutons, and the late-great Ol’ Dirty Bastard doing Britney’s “Toxic.” But enough about the music. Did you know Ronson is the stepson of Foreigner’s Mick Jones? Well here’s another 10 things you didn’t know about him.

1) My guilty pleasure song is “Drops of Jupiter” by Train. For some reason whenever I bring it up I’m the joke of the room. I even went and bought the sheet music to it.

2) I used to read Judy Blume books in high school, which is weird because they’re books for girls who are just beginning to develop their estrogen count. I think I related to the characters.

3) I like chicken nuggets. Some people come home from a late night of drinking and brush their teeth so their wife doesn’t know. I have to brush my teeth so she can’t tell I’ve had McDonald’s. I actually didn’t have McDonald’s for about six years after I read Fast Food Nation, but I caved in because they’re so good when you dip them in honey.

4) I did the music for a Hanes commercial. In the beginning when I was supporting my record label from my DJ career I needed the money. The music wasn’t so bad, but the fact that I had to write jingles—I think the caption was “It’s the same for everyone, everywhere”—was pretty bad.

5) Happy Gilmore is one of my favorite movies. There are so many lines from that movie that I use all the time. Every line is a winner.

6) I DJ’d Martha Stewart, Inc.’s Christmas party in 2002. I was looking at a long night of Deee-Lite and Michael Jackson.

7) I ran the wrong way in a relay race in fourth grade, thus earning the name Wrong Way Ronson. It sounds like a character from Fat Albert.

8) I only learned how to drive a stick shift two days ago in L.A. shooting a video for “Stop Me.” I specifically told them that I didn’t know how to drive stick and they proceeded to get a classic 1960 Pontiac GTO stick shift car and mount $300,000 worth of camera equipment on the driver’s-side door. They were freaking out, but I said just give me five minutes and I’ll learn, and after 10 minutes I was fine driving around downtown L.A. with a police escort.

9) I’m a terrible singer. If it weren’t my band I’d be fired by now.

10) I read this ridiculous thing in the tabloids saying how angry I was at Timbaland for keeping my song out of the number one spot. That’s the most ridiculous, made-up thing. So I want to set the record straight with you.

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