What happens when your music obsession catapults you beyond your wildest dreams? The answer is Night People the most life-affirming coming-of-age story Ive read in an age, with a soundtrack to die for. You know how your favourite record sounds? Thats how Mark Ronson writes. * Pete Paphides, author of Broken Greek * 'In Night People, Mark Ronson tells his own sweet, intimate, and sometimes extremely funny story of what its like to be inside an era of pure musical magic before anyone but you and your friends even know its happening. His is a perfect New York tale the kind that makes you jealous you werent there, grateful for your own version, and racing to make a playlist so you can visit this world anytime you want. Its also about the power of obsession with the thing you love, and how it can drive you to find your people, the ones who will eventually introduce you to yourself.' * Lizzie Goodman, author of the New York Times bestseller Meet Me in the Bathroom * Relatively few got to truly experience the chaotic chemistry of 90s New York nightlife. In Night People, Mark captures its short lived beauty in loving and vivid detail. He is our DJ, our guide through the citys sonic subway system, playing his way from a broken home into the basements, bars and bunkers that changed music forever. This is a book about spending those finite late nights with your chosen family, the cast of castaways marooned on an island where music is the food source and the darkened streets of night time New York is the hunting ground. This is a ride you have to take. -- Zane Lowe 'Night People is not just Mark Ronsons origin story. Its a snapshot of 1990s New York City from a figure at the epicenter of its culture. Its a book about the life of a DJ, by a DJ, in the same groundbreaking way that Anthony Bourdains Kitchen Confidential illuminated the life of a chef. And its also a lovely, sweet story about a small family and a tight community, even though you may know these peoples names well. This quadruple blend is not surprising: It comes from pop musics master synthesist.' * Dan Charnas, author of the PEN Award-winning, NY Times Bestseller Dilla Time, and The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. * 'Mark Ronsons transporting memoir is a New York bildungsroman about an uptown kid with a downtown heart that beats to hip hop while longing for a sound thats all his own. Night People reads like a playlist of life's hard knocks and small triumphs that somehow flows effortlessly on the page, not unlike his talent as a DJ to mix songs that kept the crowd shaking on the dance floor.' * Griffin Dunne, author of the New York Times bestseller The Friday Afternoon Club * 'In Night People, Mark Ronson goes time-traveling through his life and returns with a wry, sharp, moving, evocatively detailed story of discovery, and self-discovery, and of how it feels to fall head-over-heels in love with pop music.' * Michael Chabon *
