New Music: Lil’s Wayne To Mark Ronson
Sept. 28 2010, Published 6:05 a.m. ET
Producer extraordinaire Mark Ronson follows up his successful 2007 solo album with Record Collection by Mark Ronson and the Business Intl. The album finds Ronson experimenting with vintage keyboards found on eBay to create a synth-driven pop album over big old-school beats and hints of French electro. The album features guest appearances by Boy George, D’Angelo, Q-Tip and Alex Greenwald, to name a few, but the standout title track features none other than Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon crooning “I only want to be in your record collection, and I’ll do anything it takes to get there”, whilst sharing vocal duties with Ronson, who delivers hilarious lyrics like, “My teeth are bright and my hair is clean/I wear Paco Rabanne like I was Charlie Sheen,” all over keyboards by Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes. And working with the ‘80s icons was not lost on Ronson. “Duran Duran were the first band I remember being a real fan of,” he said recently. “I had an Arena lunch box and a Smash Hits sticker book.”……
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