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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Mark Ronson To Release New Album<i> <u>Uptown Special </u></i>on January 27, 2015</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Single “Uptown Funk” Featuring Bruno Mars Out <u>Today</u></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Saturday Night Live</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> Performance On November 22<sup>nd</sup></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Mark Ronson, Credit Florent Dechard</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">November 10<sup>th</sup>, 2014 - New York City, NY</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> – GRAMMY<sup>®</sup> Award-winning producer and musician Mark
Ronson’s new single “<b>Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars</b> was released today on RCA Records. Ronson and Mars, who co-wrote and co-produced the track together, first revealed the song’s existence via Twitter on October 30<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">The song is the first single from Mark Ronson’s forthcoming full-length album <b><i><u>Uptown Special</u></i></b><u>, </u>to be released on January 27, 2015 via RCA Records. Ronson
will be the musical guest on <b><i>Saturday Night Live</i></b> on November 22<sup>nd</sup>, performing "<b>Uptown Funk</b>" with Mars along with an additional track from the new album featuring another very special guest. This is Ronson’s first performance
on the famed late night NBC show.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAudio">PRESS HERE</a> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">TO STREAM “<b>Uptown Funk”
</b>featuring Bruno Mars on <i>VEVO/YouTube.</i> </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunk">PRESS HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> to purchase the track on
<i>iTunes</i>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://open.spotify.com/album/0tWBtc7le3TMo1gDdGyJVI">PRESS HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> to listen on
<i>Spotify.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAmz">PRESS HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> to purchase the track on
<i>Amazon</i>.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Uptown Special</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> is Ronson’s most inventive and vibrant work to date. Taken as a whole, the album is inspired
by his musical beginnings. As a teenager growing up in New York City in the early 90s, Ronson gravitated towards hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B. Those were the records he lugged around in boxes in the early days of his club DJ career and that scratchy, inspiring
vinyl was what he returned to when creating the album.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">"<i>No matter how my taste in music and DJ-ing veers over the years, I always find myself coming back to that music I would play out in hip-hop clubs in NY in the late 90s/early 2000s”,
</i>Ronson elaborates. <i>"Biggie, Chaka Khan, Amerie, Boz Scaggs, Missy, Earth Wind & Fire, N.O.R.E….Those songs would set alight the dance floor. The NY club scene was filled with girls, boys, dancers, drug dealers, rappers, models and skateboarders who came
mostly for one reason: to dance. And regardless of genre or era, if the song was good - if it had dope drums, if it had soul to it - they danced. Before smart phones, bottle service and smoking bans, people came to the club, found their spot and stayed all
night, absorbed in the music. With <u>Uptown Special </u>I set out to capture the feeling I remember from those New York nights</i>".</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Uptown Special, </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Ronson's fourth album, was written and produced with GRAMMY<sup>®</sup> -winning producer <b>Jeff
Bhasker</b> (Kanye West, Drake, Alicia Keys) over 18 months in studios in London, Memphis, Los Angeles and New York City. The majority of the album’s lyrics – although <i>not</i> the lead single with Mars - were written by Pulitzer-winning American novelist <b>Michael
Chabon</b>. Ronson's favourite living author, Chabon became a part of the songwriting process early on and was fully immersed in the album’s narrative creation, often working with Ronson and the vocalists in the recording studio.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Tame Impala’s <b>Kevin Parker</b> plays a huge role on the album, lending his signature, woozy vocal to three songs, as well as laying drums, guitars, synths and background vocals on
other tracks. Longtime collaborator Miike Snow's <b>Andrew Wyatt</b> also added his wonderful vocals and songwriting talents. Ronson & Bhasker's great friend producer <b>Emile Haynie</b> (Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs) also provided some glorious sonic landscapes
to the tracks, as did some of Ronson’s favourite producer-peers: Simian Mobile Disco's <b>James Ford </b>(Arctic Monkeys), TNGHT's <b>Hudson Mohawke </b>and<b> DJ Zinc. </b>And, as always, there is Ronson's invaluable group of musicians: the Brooklyn-based
genius players <b>Homer Steinweiss</b>, <b>Nick Movshon</b> and<b> Tommy Brenneck.</b></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Prior to the start of the recording, on a mission to discover the young female vocalist they had been imagining in their heads while writing these songs, Ronson and <b>Bhasker</b> set
out on a vast road trip across the US, driving through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Jackson, Memphis, St. Louis, Little Rock and Chicago. Whilst visiting gospel choirs in Jackson, MI they discovered 23-year old <b>Keyone Starr</b> and were blown away by her impressive
range and presence. They immediately invited her into the legendary Royal Studios in Memphis to record. Starr provides lead vocals on three tracks on the album.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">At the 2008 GRAMMY<sup>®</sup> Awards Mark Ronson was named “Producer of the Year” for his breakthrough second album <i>Version<b> </b></i>along with his work on Winehouse’s <i>Back
To Black</i> and Lily Allen’s <i>Alright, Still</i>. He shared two further Grammy Awards with Winehouse that year, taking home statuettes for “Best Pop Vocal Album” and “Record of the Year” for “Rehab”. The same year he was named “Best British Artist” at
the UK’s Grammy equivalent BRIT Awards. Ronson received another GRAMMY<sup>®</sup> nomination in 2014 for his production work on “Locked Out Of Heaven,” the single from Bruno Mars’ multiplatinum <i>Unorthodox Jukebox</i> that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for
six weeks in winter 2012/2013.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">The international success of <i>Version</i>'s 2010 follow-up, <i>Record Collection,</i> was followed by series of high profile production gigs for acclaimed albums by Rufus Wainright,
Bruno Mars, Action Bronson and (Sir) Paul McCartney. More recently, Ronson gave hugely popular TED Talk on the history of music sampling. </span><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_ronson_how_sampling_transformed_music">PRESS
HERE</a> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">to watch.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFFAAB.0CB2F4C0" height="318" width="318" border="0"></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Vevo/YouTube stream:
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAudio">http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAudio</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">iTunes: </span>
</b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunk">http://smarturl.it/UptownFunk</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Spotify:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#1F497D">
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://open.spotify.com/album/0tWBtc7le3TMo1gDdGyJVI">http://open.spotify.com/album/0tWBtc7le3TMo1gDdGyJVI</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#1F497D"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Amazon: </span>
</b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAmz">http://smarturl.it/UptownFunkAmz</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">For more information on Mark Ronson contact: Chloe Walsh or Gina Schulman at Press Here –</span></i></b><a href="mailto:chloe@pressherepublicity.com/" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#0000E9; text-decoration:none">chloe@pressherepublicity.com/</span></i></b></a><a href="mailto:gina@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#0000E9; text-decoration:none">gina@pressherepublicity.com</span></i></b></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">At RCA: </span></i></b><a href="mailto:sarah.weinstein@rcarecords.com" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:#0000E9">sarah.weinstein@rcarecords.com</span></i></b></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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