Mark Ronson: Lady Gaga's album is one of the best I've worked on
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Mark Ronson says Lady Gaga's upcoming album is "one of the best I've ever been a part of".
The producer oversaw the recording of her fifth record Joanne was impressed by the singer from the off.
"She blew my mind right away with the potential of the stuff we were working on.
"I really think it's definitely one of the best albums, song for song, I've ever been a part of."
The duo worked with a range of collaborators including Beck, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, legendary electro producer Giorgio Moroder, Father John Misty and BloodPop.
He also dropped a hint about extra tracks, which may not make it onto this album.
"There were definitely cool ideas and stuff left over, and maybe I'll get to use a couple for my next record.
"We wrote way more than we needed to for the record and there's stuff that she'll get to use I'm sure down the line for whatever that is."
Talking to Newsbeat at the launch of an Air BnB competition which will see the winners spending the night at Abbey Road Studio in London, he added: "We were camped out in the studio in Malibu where [Bob] Dylan and his band worked in the 70s, it's now Rick Rubin's studio.
"Beck showed up one day, they [Lady Gaga and Beck] wrote this great hook together.
"Father John Misty came and stayed for a few days and Kevin [Parker] came in from Australia.
"It was like this family of rotating cast members."
Speaking about Lady Gaga's duet with Florence Welch, he added: "Recording her vocal and watching them write that song together really didn't feel much like work.
"It really was a pretty wonderful experience."
Mark, who has previously worked on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Adele's 19, explained he knew Lady Gaga for "quite a long time before she blew up".
"She grew up 10 blocks from me in New York - I know the school she went to, she went to the all girls school I went to the all boys school.
"Even though she's younger than me and I didn't know her then, there was a bond there already."
The producer said Gaga is a perfectionist in the studio and the recording process and that eventually he had to ask her to stop adding to the album.
"We were supposed to master on a Friday - that's the final phase when they literally press up the CD and there's nothing more you can do it.
"She was running back to the studio to change a harmony on one song.
"We were doing full on band sessions on bonus tracks the morning that we were supposed to be handing the record in.
"It was pretty much down to the wire but I like that idea.
"Until it's very, very, very much done why would you not keep trying to make it better?"
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