Mark Ronson Throws His Hat Into Wedding Ring: ‘If You Guys Need a DJ, Travis, Taylor’
The DJ/producer followed in the footsteps of his stepdad from Foreigner on Thursday’s (Sept. 11) Tonight Show by offering his wedding reception services to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Maybe it runs in the family. When Mark Ronson visited The Tonight Show on Thursday night (Sept. 11) he doubled-down on a recent offer from his stepdad’s band to be the musical guest at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding.
A few weeks after Foreigner threw their hat in the ring with an offer to be the wedding band at the recently engaged couple’s as-yet-unannounced nuptials, Ronson told Jimmy Fallon that he was up to offer his party-starting turntable services as well.
“If you guys need a DJ, Travis, Taylor,” Ronson said, as Fallon tossed in his bid to be the couple’s official wedding stand-up comedian. “Let’s get on that!,” the pair agreed.
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The chat opened with Ronson taking a victory lap for helping Foreigner — co-founded by his stepdad, guitarist Mick Jones — get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. The last time he was on with Fallon, Ronson brought along a NSFW message from Sir Paul McCartney urging the RRHOF to finally induct the “I Want to Know What Love Is” band.
“When I found out they got in, I was just, I guess because it was my stepdad, he’s just done so much for me, he’s such a huge influence,” Ronson said of Jones. “I was so much more excited when they got in than any other award or anything I ever got. I actually broke down and cried when I found out they got in.”
Ronson was in Cleveland on the night of the induction, though he said Jones, who has Parkinson’s, could not make it and stayed at home to watch it on TV and celebrate with his family.
The visit also included Ronson, 50, talking about his new memoir, Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City, a remembrance of his crazy days and nights being a DJ in New York in the 1990s, which included Fallon sometimes helping him haul his crates of vinyl back to his van at the end of the night.
After recalling his thrilling first DJ gig at 10 years old — at his mom and stepdad’s wedding — Ronson detailed the moment he realized he’d found a unique style to set him apart from the many other DJs working clubs in New York at the time.
“One night I played AC/DC ‘Back in Black’ at this like, super amazing hip-hop party where they didn’t play anything like that,” he said. “Playing the kind of wrong record in a place like that you could get a bottle thrown at the booth or worse.” He described playing the biggest song at the time, “It’s All About the Benjamins” by Puff Daddy with Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim and the Lox, and throwing in a bit of the hard-rocking guitar break from the AC/DC classic in the middle of the song and watching the club freeze for a scary second before everyone just lost it.
“You know, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward, it was this lovely moment,” Ronson said of the moment he became known as “that guy” in New York who would mix rock and hip-hop and everything else he could think of.
Not for nothing, Ronson also described the time a DJ gave him a copy of the then-unreleased Biggie song “Hypnotize” and he got to play it in a club just moments after he heard it for the first time. “I just throw it on and the whole club.. you know how ‘Hypnotize’… that ‘boom-uh!’… it sounds like a meteor hitting the club. 500 people are hearing this song for the first time, knowing that they’re experiencing history and everybody is connected by this experience.”
Ronson hung around to play a game of “True Confessions” with Fallon and Reese Witherspoon, in which he told a tall tale about getting tucked in to bed as a kid by late comedy great Robin Williams.
Watch Ronson on the Tonight Show below.
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