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Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past two decades is one man: Mark Ronson. Now comes his memoir, which captures the music, characters, escapades, and energy of his DJ days in '90s New York.
Night People conjures the undeniable magic of the city's bygone 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. It’s about the beauty of what you can create with two technics and a Gemini Scratchmaster mixer, before Giuliani, bottle service, and the Puff era upended everything. It’s also about a teenager finding his way—stalking Stretch Armstrong and biting his mixes, crate-digging at the Roosevelt Hotel, grinding gig after gig through a decade of incredible music—and finding a community of people who, in their own strange, cracked ways, lived for the night.
Organized around the venues that defined his experience of the downtown scene, Ronson 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 mastermind.
