Mark Ronson has claimed that Amy Winehouse wrote her hit 'Back To Black' in less than 30 minutes.
The producer made these comments in a feature interview with Apple Music 1, which sees an artist select their favourite tracks. In Ronson's case, he chose tracks from Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Tyler The Creator, Roots Manuva, Gorillaz and of course, the late Amy Winehouse.
One song mentioned by Ronson, was Winehouse's 2004 track, In My Bed, which reached number 60 in the UK Singles Chart following its release.
"I think that was about the same time Frank came out. So I was here to play Carnival, driving around London and she was on the cover of Timeout magazine", Ronson said.
He continued: "So back in the day there were billboards and flyer posters everywhere of this girl Amy Winehouse. And I just remember being like, who is this girl? Because obviously as a Jew as well, I was like, this is a Jewish name. I was like, and this soul singer, she's cute".
"I just remember thinking it was really interesting and then I checked out that song in my bed and because it's the producer, SLA Remy who sort of redid the beat that he did for NAS's song Made You Look, which was already one of my favourite instrumentals of all time. So I was like, oh my god, she's singing over Made You Look - incredible! Even though nobody knew that In My Bed Song, it was just so much fun to play it".
Elsewhere, Mark Ronson spoke about working with Amy Winehouse, revealing that she was drawn to her "amazing energy" and "charming" personality.
He said: "She came to my studio the first day and I just said, well, what kind of record do you want to make? I would say, not that I didn't know what I was doing, but I was just like I didn't have a sound. I met her and I thought she was so charming and she had this kind of amazing energy".
"She said, well yeah, I want to make something that sounds like the music they play down at my local. I was like, well, I don't have anything like that, but if you want to come back tomorrow I'd love to work on something. So she left and I came up being super inspired by just meeting her".
On how 'Back To Black' came about, Ronson added: "I came up with bits for Back to Black and little drumbeat and played it for her the next day and she was just like, it was funny. It was so hard to read her. She was so stone-faced and she was like, yeah, that's what I want my whole album to sound like. Just so sudden - and I remember she went in the other room and called her a&r and was like, I want to stay in New York another week to work on some more stuff with Mark. And that was it. She went to the back room. This was so old school, I burned the instrumental on a CD and gave her a disc-man and some headphones, so she could write to the track and she came back out the back room in 30 minutes and she'd written the whole of Back To Black".
