“I’ll never forget, he did the whole thing, like the hand out with the snap, and started to sing this bassline”: How a teenage Mark Ronson convinced Michael Jackson to write him a bassline so he could make a hit song out of it

Mark Ronson and Michael Jackson.

It’s well-known that Mark Ronson grew up around a lot of famous musicians - his stepdad is Foreigner’s Mick Jones and one of his best childhood friends was Sean Lennon, for starters - but he’s now been telling the story of a slightly bizarre in encounter with one of the biggest pop stars of them all, Michael Jackson.

Speaking to Rolling Stone as he promotes his upcoming memoir, Night People: How To Be a DJ in 1990s New York, Ronson says that his meeting with Jackson happened when the King of Pop stayed with Sean Lennon and his mother Yoko at the Dakota building in New York during the Bad tour. Ronson was there too - he would have been around 13 at the time - and suggests that, initially, Jackson’s behaviour was as eccentric as you might expect.