While appearing on the Sept. 11 episode of The Tonight Show to promote his new book\u2014Night People: How to be a DJ in \u201890s NYC\u2014host Jimmy Fallon brought up how Foreigner offered to play Taylor and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding. The band\u2019s Instagram made the plea shortly after Kelce proposed to the \u201cCruel Summer\u201d singer.<\/p>\n
Ronson, upon seeing his father\u2019s pitch, threw his hat in the ring. \u201cIf you guys need a DJ, Travis? Taylor?\u201d offered Ronson, with Fallon adding he was available \u201cif you need a comedian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Ronson\u2019s Stepdad, Mick Jones<\/p>\n
Though Ronson wasn\u2019t joking when discussing how important it was that his dad got accepted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
In the years leading up to their induction, Ronson championed his stepfather\u2019s legacy. In Mark\u2019s eyes, Foreigner (with hits like \u201cCold as Ice,\u201d \u201cHot Blooded,\u201d \u201cHead Games,\u201d \u201cWaiting for a Girl Like You,\u201d and \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is\u201d) and specifically, his stepdad, deserved their flowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I found out they got in, I was just, I guess, because it was my stepdad, he\u2019s just done so much for me, he\u2019s such a huge influence,\u201d Ronson told Fallon. \u201cI was so much more excited when they got in than any other award or anything I ever got. I actually broke down and cried when I found out they got in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Guitarist Mick Jones of rock group Foreigner performing live on stage during Ramblin Man Fair music festival at Mote Park in Maidstone, England, on July 21, 2019.Photo by Kevin Nixon/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Jones married Mark Ronson\u2019s mother, Ann, in the early 1980s. Jones wrote the band\u2019s chart-topping hit, \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is,\u201d right before they tied the knot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just up late one night. I had met the person who was becoming my wife, basically, and I think I walked into the bedroom about two in the morning, and I said, \u2018I\u2019ve got this great idea.\u2019 I had the first two chords of the intro and the title,\u201d he told Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a>in 2013.<\/p>\n He then told Ann the title. \u201cShe looked at me and said, \u201cWhat do you mean you want to know what love is? We\u2019re about to get married!\u201d [Laughs] \u201cDon\u2019t you know what love is?\u201d So that was funny<\/p>\n Foreigner\u2019s Journey to the Hall of Fame<\/p>\n Foreigner formed in 1976, with guitarist Mick Jones, vocalist Lou Gramm, bassist Ed Gagliardi, drummer Dennis Elliott, keyboardist Al Greenwood and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald. In the nearly fifty years since, the band has gone through multiple lineup changes, with Jones being the only continuous original member.<\/p>\n Bands, singers and acts are eligible for nomination to the Rock Hall 25 years after their first commercial recording and if they demonstrate a significant impact on the evolution of rock and music.<\/p>\n And so, Foreigner was first eligible in 2001.<\/p>\n After a two-decade push from Ronson and other celebrities, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Foreigner into the Class of 2024.<\/p>\n Related: Iconic ’80s Rockers Extend ‘Formal Offer’ to Be Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding Band<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 12, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Ronson is a chart-topping producer and songwriter, having worked with Amy Winehouse (\u201cRehab\u201d) and Bruno Mars (\u201cUptown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17829,17831,17832,93,61,60,3721,17827,17828,278,17830,6550],"class_list":["post-20068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-band-foreigner","tag-bruno-mars","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-mark-ronson","tag-mick-jones","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}