{"id":684402,"date":"2025-08-11T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mark-ronsons-latest-high-note\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:00:27","slug":"mark-ronsons-latest-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mark-ronsons-latest-high-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ronson\u2019s Latest High Note"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tMark Ronson built up one of the most impressive music careers over the past two decades, from producing Amy Winehouse\u2019s Back to Black<\/em> and releasing one of the best-selling songs of all time with \u201cUptown Funk\u201d to soundtracking one of the biggest cultural moments of the decade with Barbie<\/em>. This year the superstar producer notched yet another feather in his cap as an executive producer of SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert <\/em>alongside Lorne Michaels, curating a once-in-a-lifetime star-studded concert in which major artists covered landmark performances on the show. Ronson secured his first-ever primetime Emmy nomination in the process.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichaels offered Ronson the gig in October 2023, giving them just under a year and a half to corral their dream lineup, which would include artists from Miley Cyrus to Lady Gaga, Cher to Post Malone, the surviving members of Nirvana, and SNL<\/em> legends like Will Ferrell and Andy Samberg.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had that split-second flash that was like, \u2018This is going to be the most wonderful thing of all time and a crazy amount of work,\u2019 \u201d Ronson says. \u201cAnd of course I\u2019m going to do it because it\u2019s Lorne and it\u2019s Saturday Night Live<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRonson, who calls his own SNL<\/em> performance in 2014 \u201cthe absolute highlight\u201d of his career, says he watched every musical act the show has ever hosted to prepare, a time-consuming task. He narrowed it down to app<\/a>roximately 120 songs, writing ideas on sticky notes and posting them up, similar to SNL<\/em>\u2018s bulletin board where the show announces its weekly lineup.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019d be in a hotel somewhere DJing for an F1 event or something, and the entire hotel room would be just littered with yellow Post-its that\u2019d say \u2018Karma Chameleon\u2019 or \u201950 Ways to Leave Your Lover\u2019 or \u2018Bad Guy,\u2019 \u201d Ronson says with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Bad Bunny, Chris Parnell, Lady Gaga, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone were among the stars who lit up SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRalph Bavaro\/Peacock via Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tRonson huddled frequently with Michaels and producer Erin David as a sort of \u201cbrain trust\u201d and they\u2019d go over ideas for the lineup. Ronson would send five or six songs to the artists to consider covering, some of whom \u201ccompletely ignored my decisions or were completely offended by them,\u201d he jokes, adding that artists brought their own great ideas as well. Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, for example, came up with playing Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cThe Boxer,\u201d a particularly noteworthy song in SNL<\/em>\u2018s history as Paul Simon played it on the show just after Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\tRonson says producing the concert special was intense even by his own standards, recalling \u201cwaking up in the middle of the night in cold sweats\u201d as he juggled the show, working on his memoir (slated for publication later this year), and managing time with his family as his wife was pregnant with their second child.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember being on these conference calls like, \u2018I know you guys are used to this, but I\u2019m losing my mind here,\u2019 \u201d Ronson jokes. \u201d \u2018Does this position come with a prescription of Xanax?\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the Aug. 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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