Angry Smiths fans were galled by Ronson’s audacity to tread on holy ground, a sentiment well documented on message boards around the world. Speaking of incurring the wrath of rabid fans, Ronson’s refix of The Smiths‘ Stop Me into a funky number managed to do just that. There’s no point doing Jessica Simpson covers just for the purpose of not pissing anyone off!” – Mark Ronson defends covering The Smiths “I think if you’re going to cover a song, you might as well cover your favourites. But I’m pretty sure the next album won’t be a covers album…” “At one point I thought I would do six covers and six originals, but the release of the Radiohead cover somehow inspired me to come up with more covers I wanted to do, so I just said ‘Fuck it’. “I had a whole bunch of covers I’d been working on, so it wasn’t like I suddenly changed my mind,” he explains. Was it always his intention to release a covers album, or did everything fall into place after Just? With Phantom Planet’s Alex Greenwald on vocals, Mark’s soulful interpretation of Just (which also appears on Version) drew the ire of many Radiohead fans, but was met with much greater reaction in other circles. In 2006, Ronson was approached to contribute to Songs With Radio Heads, a compilation of Radiohead covers. That’s part of what makes a good producer – using your ears to match things together.” I did have a pretty good idea of who would sound good on what. It really was that random, but with Amy and Lily having such successful albums it appears more deliberate than it actually was. “Basically it was as simple as taking a bunch of my favourite songs and getting whoever I was working with at the time to perform them. How did he go about deciding which tracks to cover and who to enlist on vocal duties’ Sharing the stage with Ronson are his many vocalist pals, including Winehouse, Allen and Australian newcomer Daniel Merriweather. Ronson’s ability to reconcile the irreconcilable provided the basis for Version, where he recasts modern classics by The Smiths, Ryan Adams and Kaiser Chiefs into soulful jams. musicOMH grants Ronson his wish, stopping by to pick his brain on his working relationships with Lily and Amy, why he’s no Timbaland, and tracks which one should never cover for fear of eternal damnation…. He would rather talk about the homogenous and uninspiring state of hip hop than his mainstream popularity. As one of the most prominent DJs in the US for the past 10 years, he recently spun at TomKat’s wedding (file under ‘Might be considered an accolade in certain circles’).īut as an interviewee, Ronson is almost a little bookish. His scruffy good looks and penchant for Dior Homme have made him somewhat of a tabloid darling. His album Version was a UK Top 10 fixture during the spring, peaking at Number 2. As an artist in his own right, he had the guts to metamorphose classics by Radiohead and The Smiths into funky dancefloor fillers. In fact, his magic touch recently earned Winehouse’s Back To Black a Mercury Prize nod. He is the producer du jour, having worked with the hottest names in the industry such as Christina Aguilera, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse. The name Mark Ronson is synonymous with a string of endless accolades.
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