Ronson's Duran hand

Ronson's seal of approval for Duran Duran

He's teamed up with Amy Winehouse, he's updated Smith's songs into dancefloor-fillers and he's also picked up a Brit for his troubles. Now Mark Ronson is doing it for Duran Duran.

The uberproducer / performer / guru – frankly we don't know what he does other than stick his name on the cover – is teaming up with Simon Le Bon and all those other blokes for a live show in Paris.

They probably won't be called Ronson Duran (because that sounds like a middleweight boxer) or The Ronson Duran Project (because that sounds like a 70's prog rock band) but, whatever they're known as, they'll be playing a gig together in Paris.

The event, to be called the Smirnoff Experience Paris – which makes The Ronson Duran Project sound pretty good now we think of it – will feature reworked versions of the band's back catalogue as well as sprinkling the Ronson magic over the band's recent less-than-steller album, Red Carpet Massacre.

NME.com reports that the acts have released a statement confirming that they've 'already started planning this collaboration with regular conversations from the road' and 'that Mark is now following up on with time spent in the studio.'

Ronson will play a solo show at the event – ooh, live knob twiddling, that'll be exciting – which will, apparently, feature Le Bon as one of his pool of guest vocalists.

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