Grammy and Oscar-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing compares to the rush he feels when he puts on a song that transforms the room. Ronson was 10 years old, and celebrating the wedding of his mother and his stepfather, when he first felt it.

It was a small wedding, in the garden of a summer rental, and the music had stalled. Ronson's new stepfather, Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones suggested that Ronson — a self-described "kid obsessed with music" — find a song to put on. He chose Eric Clapton 's "Wonderful Tonight."

"And I remember standing inside the house looking through the window as my stepdad pulls my mom in for a slow dance," Ronson says. "And I just stood there watching the scene, slightly drunk off this feeling of like, 'Oh my God, this is my music playing out ther

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