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Ronson's production work 'went pretty cold after that,' he said, chewing a toothpick as he spoke in his hushed trans-Atlantic murmur. Yet 2010's synthed-up 'Record Collection' didn't perform well, selling only 27,000 copies despite high-profile cameos by D'Angelo and Duran Duran's Simon LeBon. That success created an appetite for his covers album, 'Version,' and eventually songs of his own. He later moved into producing, developing a crisp neo-Motown sound - think live bass and guitar against blocky hip-hop drums - on records by Winehouse, Lily Allen and Adele, among others. (Ronson's famous family includes his mother, socialite Ann Dexter-Jones his stepfather, Mick Jones of the band Foreigner and his sister Charlotte Ronson, the fashion designer.)

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The multi-instrumentalist, born in London but raised from age 8 in New York, emerged in the late 1990s as one of the earliest so-called celebrity DJs: a well-connected scenester regularly called upon to move crowds at movie premieres and media events.

Sitting outside his friend (and fellow producer) Jeff Bhasker's Venice studio the morning after he performed on 'The Voice,' Ronson, 39, said he went into making 'Uptown Special,' his fourth album, 'with the knowledge that this was a bit like the Last Chance Saloon.'