RONSON’S FAMILY MIX UP
Internet reports suggesting DAVID BOWIE’s longtime collaborator MICK RONS ON was celebrity DJs MARK and SAMANTHA RONSON’s dad got so out of hand ev en the late guitarist’s wife believed they were true.
The siblings’ stepfather is Foreigner star Mick Jones, but many music w riters incorrectly linked them to Ronson - and the ‘fact’ stuck in many e arly reviews and articles.
Mark Ronson tells Spin magazine, "It was, like, the first Internet rumo ur that went wrong. It got picked up by everyone and just got written as if it were a fact.
"It got to the point where Mick Ronson’s widow called my mum and was li ke, ‘Did you have illegitimate children by my deceased husband?’" And the DJ admits there are still mix-ups over his parentage: "People a re always like, ‘So your dad’s Mick Ronson…?’ And I’m like, ‘No, he’s M ick Jones.’ And they’re like, ‘… from The Clash?’ "I should just wear a Foreigner T-shirt all the time."
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