Mark Ronson Celebrates ‘Night People’ at New York Hot Spot Chez Nous

This week successful New York, Mark Ronson celebrated his 50th day — and the motorboat of his book, Night People: How to Be a DJ successful ’90s New York City — and each of the close “night people” were there.

Ronson’s literate cause David Kuhn hosted the star-packed enactment astatine his caller blistery spot Chez Nous, the recently opened edifice helium co-owns wrong the historical Marlton Hotel successful Greenwich Village, and successful his toast, Kuhn recalled gathering Ronson successful the ’80s, erstwhile “Mark was a teen who was starting to DJ astatine clubs that were mode cooler than I was.”

“I archetypal met Mark astatine 1 of his miraculous parent Ann’s legendary Sunday brunches successful the 1980s, ever a premix of uptown and downtown, the celebrated and sometime infamous, and ever multi-generational,” Kuhn recalled successful his speech, describing the gatherings thrown by Ronson’s mother, Ann Dexter-Jones, who joined Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones aft divorcing his father.

“Most of you cognize this was the societal and taste swirl that Mark grew up in, 1 that mightiness person caused different kid successful his shoes to go jaded, oregon entitled, oregon lazy, oregon unfocused. And the astonishing happening astir Mark is that helium is not lone nary of those things but really the other of each of them: helium grew up to beryllium curious, grateful, incredibly hard working, determined, and astir of each humble, this contempt his unthinkable endowment and success.”

While euphony stars often enlist ghostwriters to assistance pen their memoirs, Kuhn said that “it was rapidly evident that not lone could Mark constitute the publication himself, but that helium was a earthy and talented writer. Because helium innately possessed the halfway strengths of a literate memoirist: hard won self-knowledge; a acquisition for storytelling; fantabulous recall; an receptor for dialogue, a constituent of view, and a big, generous heart.”

Rosnon initially wondered if helium needed to enactment with a co-writer, but helium and Kuhn decided alternatively that “he would conscionable commencement putting stories down connected the leafage and spot wherever that led.”

“Mark said that helium wanted to archer the communicative successful this publication to seizure the milieu of the ’90s that helium grew up in, particularly for younger folks who weren’t there, and besides to grant those who helium credited with his philharmonic education, particularly those nary longer around,” Kuhn said.

“As Mark writes successful the book, and is present speaking astir successful interviews, 1 of the addictive pleasures of being a DJ has ever been to usage his philharmonic tastes and instincts to airy up a creation level and springiness a country afloat of strangers unmitigated pleasure. Now helium volition bash that arsenic a publication author, speaking one-to-one to each of his readers.”

The playlist for the party featured each opus mentioned successful Ronson’s book, sequenced successful the nonstop bid they look connected the page. Guests sipped “Mark-aritas” successful the restauran...