Night People: How to Be a DJ in 90's New York City

From Mark Ronson, one of the most distinguished musical influencers of our time, comes a memoir that captures the music, characters, escapades, and energy of his DJ days in '90s New York. ​

At the dawn of the '90s, Mark Ronson was a New York city prep school kid playing guitar in a mediocre band, harboring far-fetched dreams of rock n' roll stardom. His stepdad, Mick Jones from Foreigner, was an actual rock star, and his mum, Ann Dexter-Jones, lived like a rock star. But Ronson was the least talented musician in his own teenage band. Then, one Friday night in December 1992, he went to an all-ages rave in a warehouse downtown, and his entire life changed. He would devote himself to deejaying.

Today, Ronson is one of the most influential DJ-songwriter-record producer-record executives of our time. A seven-time Grammy winner, Ronson has worked with legendary performers like Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Bruno Mars, and countless others. In Night People, Ronson looks back at his early days as an upstart teenage DJ in the '90s, conjuring the undeniable magic of the city's nightlife--a time when clubs were diverse, glamorous, and a little lawless, and each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibility.

Organized around the venues and nights that defined his experience of the downtown scene, Night People evokes the specific rush of that decade and those spaces--where fashion folks 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 '90s New York nightlife, and the making of a musical genius.