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Night People

How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City

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Night People

By: Mark Ronson
Narrated by: Mark Ronson
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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

© Mark Ronson 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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Incredible insight. Listened on a flight back from Vegas to the UK and was completely consumed transported straight to New York in the ’90s. Brilliantly structured and perfectly narrated by Mark himself. Now it’s 4:09 a.m. in the UK with work in a few hours, and despite the jet lag, this audiobook will carry me through the day. It’s one I’ll think about often for the impact it had and the connection it gave me. Loved that it captured this period and……stopped, genius. His daughters will be proud.

Brilliant! Total insight - Unique

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Mark Ronson brings the book to life. I could picture every scene. Thank you for sharing the stories Mark. Hopefully a sequel will be written in due course.

Fantastic insight into DJ and nightlife in NYC

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Ronson makes you feel you’re in New York and in the party at the club. The writing is just so eloquent. He’s talent knows no bounds and this is an absolute cracking book and I would highly recommend it.

Masterpiece

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Ronson is a natural born writer and narrator with an even more impressive memory. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

A cultural moment

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Not usually the type to read books but I’m a big fan of Mark Ronson, so this caught my eye. I opted to listen to the audiobook version, as some of my job involves a bit of driving, so I knew I could free two birds out of one cage with driving to jobs and listening to this.

Mark’s hybrid and unique accent really does drive the narrative and is articulated in a way that even helped me imagine what it would be like to DJ in 90s NYC.

As someone that’s going through a lot of change in life, no more so than the past couple of years, it was nice to hear that even Mark can share the same vulnerabilities and sadness that comes with it, when thinking back to bygone days. That those days will never come again. But, we can be happy they happened.

Big congratulations on the book, Mark. I sincerely hope you’re able to do another book / audiobook about another chapter in your life. 😊

Brilliant

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