Mark Ronson is one of those names which you'll only probably recognise up till now if you scan the credits booklet of a CD. Yet as the man who's helped propel both Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse to global success, his stock is rising and rising. Even his involvement with Robbie Williams' career suicide note of Rudebox couldn't damage his reputation.   Full text...

Ronson strips pop tracks of their rock instruments and rebuilds them brilliantly with hip hop beats and upbeat Motown arrangements.  Full text...

Version is one of the most vibrant, invigorating works of pop music to pass by my ears in a while.  Full text...

Ronson’s second album reworks a slew of (mostly) British indie hits into box-fresh hip-hop soul numbers. Such an approach necessitates finding an extra dimension in the song or falling into the realm of parody or clever technical transposition, and Version tries all three.  Full text...

British-born producer du jour and famous chums save the life of the humble cover version.  Full text...

There's a fine line between the covers album and the producer's anthology, one that Mark Ronson tiptoes expertly on Version.  Full text...

For its irresistible sense of fun, 'Version' shouldn't be ignored.  Full text...

Mark Ronson's second album, Version, quite a meritable achievement - not least because he's reworked songs by two bands that have possibly the most militant fans in existence (The Smiths and Radiohead).  Full text...

A collection of interpretive covers rather than remixes and the buzz about the supposedly post-modern pizzazz of Ronson's second effort has been building for months.  Full text...