Mark Ronson

Your finger hovers over the screen to cue up the next heater.

The crowd now trusts you.

You're about to show them why.

Yeah.

So the first time I had that feeling, I was at my mother's wedding to my stepfather.

And I think I was 10 years old.

And they had like a really small little wedding in the garden at this summer rental.

And even though my stepdad was this really successful, huge rock star, he was in the band Foreigner and wrote all these songs, I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl Like You.

It seemed like the music at the wedding was almost an afterthought.

I think they were playing a tape deck in the house that was wired to some speakers in the garden.

And then one point, as the sun was going down, the music just kind of stopped entirely.

You heard the cassette kind of snap.

And Mick just looked at me and he was like, Ma, go put something on.

And, you know, obviously this felt like all the responsibility of the world in my hands, like this little kid obsessed with music, like my stepdad saying, like, you can control the music, you know, like at this wedding.

ran in the house, and there were all these cassettes on the floor, and I remember, like, searching through them, and there was nothing that seemed right.

And then I saw Timepieces, the best of Eric Clapton, and I was like, ah!

And even in my, like, 10-year-old brain, I saw the song Wonderful Tonight on there, and I was like, that is an appropriate song for now.

That is, like, my mom looks wonderful in her dress, and it seems romantic, and I'm going to put that on.

I quickly queued it up.

They, you know, had some crazy...