Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse appear to have smoothed over the cracks in their relationship after an online spat.
It’s perhaps the most successful partnership in British music. Mark Ronson produced the Amy Winehouse album ‘Back To Black’ with its international success raising the profile of both artists.
However since then the partnership has unravelled. Attempts to record a follow up met stormy weather, with Mark Ronson walking out on the singer after complaining bitterly of her accelerating drug use.
Last week Mark Ronson was interviewed on ‘Later… With Jools Holland’ and appeared to take credit for some elements of the singer’s career. “Amy Winehouse would come to me with just a song and an acoustic guitar and then kind of you dream up the rhythm arrangement and track around it and you help arrange all sorts of things.”
By way of response Amy Winehouse logged into Twitter, telling the producer: “Ronson you’re dead to me; one album I write and you take half the credit – make a career out of it? Don’t think so bruv.”
Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Tuesday (September 21st) the producer admitted the debt he owed the singer. “I’ve always been really candid about saying that Amy is the reason I am on the map.”
“If it wasn’t for the success of ‘Back To Black’, no one would have cared too much about Version (Ronson’s second album).”
Continuing, Mark Ronson insisted that the matter should remain private. “Amy is a friend and I think that’s something I should discuss with her personally” he said.
Meanwhile, Amy Winehouse has updated her Twitter account to send another message to the producer. “Ronson I love you; that make it better? You know I love you – it’s a Jew thingz.”
Amy Winehouse is currently working on her third album without Mark Ronson, with new material set to arrive before January.
